Word: choson
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Crowded lecture bills and administrative hassles will be far from the mind of Professor of Korean Studies Edward W. Wagner '49 this summer as he begins an exploration of the history of the bureaucracy under Korea's 518-year Choson dynasty...
...project began 25 years ago, he said, and he and a colleague have catalogued the names of the 14,607 people who served as Choson officials. But "that's just scratching the surface," he said. He will explore "who these people were, where they lived," their marriage ties and influence on the ruling family...
Wagner will have plenty of time to dig deeper into Choson history, as he and eight other Faculty of Arts and Sciences colleagues retire at the end of this academic year...
...subsequent two periods, the Koryo Dynasty and the Choson Dynasty, Korean ceramics start to look like what most Western viewers would expect of Oriental ceramics. The collection of wares on display from these two periods are truly magnificent, and they stand as premier examples of the differing traditions of Korean and Chinese ceramics. In the Koryo Period, Korean potters perfected the technique of celadon glazing. Celsdon wares, glazed in a blue to green glaze, started in China and traveled into Korea. The celadon glazes, which gain their color from iron compounds contained in the glaze, were well suited as glazes...
Finally, the last period of Korean wares covered in the Henderson Collection date from the Choson Period. Varied and inventive, the ceramics of this period are the most diverse in artistic style. And there are more types of ceramics. In addition to the traditional stoneware, some ceramics are made of porcelain, a high-fired ware that is translucent when held up to the light. In the Choson Period, porcelain wares are painted with a blue underglaze, but they are also carved and glazed with a light celadon glaze. While similar traditions can be seen in contemporaneous Chinese porcelains, the shapes...