Enlightenment Workshop: Montesquieu in East Asia

05/03/2025, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm

5 Mar.            Jeanhyoung Soh (Seoul National University)

11:00am           Montesquieu in East Asia 

Annual online session with the Global Intellectual History Unit, Sungkyunkwan University

Jeanhyoung Soh holds a PhD in Political Science from Seoul National University. Her thesis was titled “The Relation between Power and Authority of Kings in Late Chosŏn Dynasty: Interpretations of the concept of Hwangkuk (皇極).” After PhD, she was a Henry Luce postdoctoral fellow at the Ricci Institute of Chinese-Western Cultural History, University of San Francisco. She is member of numerous history societies in Korea and now a Research Fellow at the Institute of Humanities, Seoul National University. She has published in Korean and English, and her research interests include Jesuit translations of Coimbra texts in China, the translation of Western political texts in Asia, and the reception of Western geographical knowledge by Korean intellectuals and their reconstructed worldview.