Book Description
William Elliot Griffis (1843-1928) graduated from Rutgers College in 1869 and taught four years in Fukui and Tokyo. After his return to the U.S., he devoted himself to his research and writing on East Asia throughout his life.
The Korean materials in the Griffis Collection at Rutgers University include rare books, journals, correspondence, articles, maps, prints, pamphlets, photos, postcards, manuscripts, and ephemera.
The Korea Letters in the William Elliot Griffis Collection are divided into two parts: letters from missionaries and letters from Japanese and Korean political figures. Newly available and accessible through this collection, these letters develop a multifaceted history of early American missionaries in Korea, the Korean independence movement, and Griffis’s views on Korean culture.
Roundtable
Editors
Dr. Young-mee Yu Cho, Professor of Korean Language and Culture in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, Rutgers-New Brunswick
Young-mee Yu Cho is Professor of Korean Language and Culture in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at Rutgers University. She is the one of the three editors for the new series, DITTA: Korean Humanities in Translation (Rutgers University Press). Her publications include Parameters of Consonantal Assimilation (1999), Integrated Korean (2000-2021), Korean Photographs in the William Elliot Griffis Collection (2019), Teaching Korean as a Foreign Language: Theories and Practices (2021), You Call That Music?!: Korean Popular Music Through the Generations (2022), and Rereading Chang Lee Wook (2022).
Ms. Sungmin Park, Resource Description Librarian, Rutgers University
Sungmin Park is Resource Description Librarian at Rutgers University. She coauthored two book chapters on the Griffis Collection on the Griffis Collection published in Korean Photographs in the William Griffis Collection (2019) and Beyond the Book (2002).
Discussants
Dr. James Jinhong Kim, Horace G. Underwood Chair in Global Christianity and Associate Professor of Missiology and Global Christianity, New Brunswick Theological Seminary
Mr. Hee-Gwone Yoo, Librarian, New York Public Library