Hyaeweol Choi

Hyaeweol Choi is the ANU-Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies and Director of the Korea Institute at The Australian National University. Her research interests are in the areas of gender, culture, religion and diaspora. She is author of New Women in Colonial Korea: A Sourcebook (Routledge 2013) and Gender and Mission Encounters in Korea: New Women, Old Ways (University of California Press, 2009). She is currently working on a project, reexamining the modern history of women in Korea from a transnational perspective by focusing on the dynamic flow of the ideas, discourses and people across national boundaries that have triggered new gender images and bodily practices.

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Christian Paradoxes in Asia and the Pacific

Publication date: October 2014
Divine Domesticities: Christian Paradoxes in Asia and the Pacific fills a huge lacuna in the scholarly literature on missionaries in Asia/Pacific and is transnational history at its finest. Co-edited by two eminent scholars, this multidisciplinary volume, an outgrowth of several conferences/seminars, critically examines various encounters between western missionaries and indigenous women in the Pacific/Asia … Taken as a whole, this is a thought-provoking and…