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"Geography, climate, physical data" (2020)
Book Chapter
Lee, J. S. (2020). "Geography, climate, physical data". In G. Christ, & P. R. Rössner (Eds.), History and Economic Life: A Student’s Guide to approaching Economic and Social History sources. Routledge

The Waterlogged Limits of the Infrastructural State: The Failure of the T’aean Canalization Projects in Pre-Industrial Korea, 1134-1537 (2020)
Journal Article
Lee, J. S. (2020). The Waterlogged Limits of the Infrastructural State: The Failure of the T’aean Canalization Projects in Pre-Industrial Korea, 1134-1537. International journal of Korean history, 25(1), 15-40. https://doi.org/10.22372/ijkh.2019.25.1.15

One of the chronic problems of pre-industrial Korean history has been the difficulty of material integration between core regions of the Korean peninsula. This article analyzes five major canalization attempts made by Koryŏ and Chosŏn states in the T... Read More about The Waterlogged Limits of the Infrastructural State: The Failure of the T’aean Canalization Projects in Pre-Industrial Korea, 1134-1537.

The Rise of the Brokered State: Situating Administrative Expansion in Chosŏn Korea (2019)
Journal Article
Lee, J. S. (2019). The Rise of the Brokered State: Situating Administrative Expansion in Chosŏn Korea. Seoul journal of Korean studies, 32(1), 81-108. https://doi.org/10.1353/seo.2019.0004

Between 1500 and 1800 CE, patterns of governance on the Korean Peninsula shifted toward a dynamic that I term the “rise of the brokered state.” While central political authority increasingly became entrenched in a small number of elite families resid... Read More about The Rise of the Brokered State: Situating Administrative Expansion in Chosŏn Korea.

Postwar Pines: The Military and the Expansion of State Forests in Post-Imjin Korea, 1598–1684 (2018)
Journal Article
Lee, J. S. (2018). Postwar Pines: The Military and the Expansion of State Forests in Post-Imjin Korea, 1598–1684. The Journal of Asian Studies, 77(2), 319-332. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021911817001322

This article explains why the Chosŏn government and the military in particular expanded state control over forests in the seventeenth century and analyzes the implications of forest administration in a preindustrial polity. From 1592 to 1598, the Cho... Read More about Postwar Pines: The Military and the Expansion of State Forests in Post-Imjin Korea, 1598–1684.