Ex-CCEA

Brain Korea 21

Participating Professors

Professor KIM Jaesok
Professor Kim Jaesok’s research addresses three sets of themes: 1) Globalization, Multinational Corporations, and Labor-Management Relation; 2) Domestic and Transnational Migration, Ethnicity, and Nationalism; and, 3) Post-Socialism, Public Morality, and Governance. He has conducted research in China and South Korea. His research explores how these themes are expressed through various domestic and transnational connections, especially the movements of capital, corporations, and people between the two countries. Professor Kim analyzes historical and contemporary processes of global capitalism by looking into the changing power dynamics among multinational corporations, local labor, and local government officials in China. His research also illuminates the relationships among evolving structure of domestic and transnational job markets, formations of “new” class and ethnic consciousness, and transformations of family and local communities in China. Professor Kim has also begun a project that investigates the transforming state ideology of China and their effects on Chinese people’s ideas of public morality and state belonging, focusing on the creation of neoliberal individuals and Chinese people’s growing indifference to public morality. His project especially analyzes the Chinese government’s reintroduction of Confucianism as an official state ideology to cure public immorality.
Education & Positions

 
2022. – Present.   Professor, Department of Anthropology, Seoul National University​

2021. - Present.     Chair, Institute for China Studies, Seoul National University
 
2021. - Present.​     Board Member, Institutional Review Board (IRB), Seoul National University
 
2017. 3. – 2022. 8  Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Seoul National University
 
2012. 1. - 2016. 6.   Research Scholar, Center for the Study of Contemporary China, University of Pennsylvania
 
2008. 7. - 2016. 6 .  Assistant Professor, Anthropology Department, University of Pennsylvania
 
2008. 8. - 2016. 6.  Consulting Scholar, Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
 
2008. 8. - 2016. 6.  Core Faculty, Center for East Asian Studies, University of Pennsylvania
 
2013. 8. - 2014. 8.  Visiting Professor, Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University
 
2007. 7. - 2008. 6.  Postdoctoral Fellow for Chinese Studies, Center for East Asian Studies, Stanford University
 
2007. 6.  Ph.D. Anthropology, Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, Dissertation: The Cultural Encounters in a Chinese Sweatshop: Transnational Movement of South Korean Enterprises and the Creation of Borderland Factory Regime
 
1999. 8.  M.A. Anthropology, College of Social Science, Seoul National University, Master’s Thesis: Contemporary Forms of Korean Traditional Culture: Cases of Mask Dance and Madang’geuk
 
1996. 8.  B.A. Anthropology, Seoul National University, Summa Cum Laude, Distinction in Major​ 

Office Address
Room 403, Bldg. 16 (College of Social Sciences)
Office Tel. / E-mail
+82-2-880-2288 / jaesokk@snu.ac.kr
Courses Taught
Anthropology of Contemporary Issues
State, Nations, and Nationalism
History of Anthropological Theory
Methods of Anthropological Fieldwork
Introduction to Anthropology
Urban Culture and Globalization of China
East Asia and Globalization
Anthropology and History
Corporate Culture and Globalization

University of Pennsylvania, Department of Anthropology (2008-2016), 
ANTH 004 Modern World and Its Cultural Background
ANTH 216 Globalizing East Asia
ANTH 228 Chinese Culture and Society
ANTH 316 Anthropology of Global Labor
ANTH 420 Nations, Nationalism, and Politics 

Seoul National University, Graduate School of International Studies (2013-2014), 
Current Issues in Chinese Society
Topics in Area Studies

Research Interests

Capitalism and Globalization, Domestic & International Labor Migration, Labor & Management Studies, Nationalism & Ethnic Minorities, Post-socialism & Neoliberal Governance, Urban (Re)development and Community-Based Activism, Social Welfare and Corporate State, Food & Culture, Culture & Environment 

Publications
[Journal Articles]

2022 “Voluntary Community Activism and State’s Efforts of Political Mobilization: A Case Study of a Coffeehouse and a Youth Association in Fuyang City, Guangdong Province,” Korean Cultural Anthropology 55(1), A
ccepted (Korean).
“자발적 지역사회운동(社区活动)과 국가의 정치적 동원 시도: 광둥성 푸양시 커피전문점과 청년회의 사례를 중심으로,” 『한국문화인류학』 55(1).


2021a “Reinforcement of Social Welfare and Calling of the Young in China: Case of Guangdong Shuangbai Plan and Social Welfare Workers,” Korean Cultural Anthropology
 54(1): 75-121, “47 pages” (Korean).
“중국 사회복지 정책의 강화와 청년의 호출: 광둥성 쌍백계획(双百计划)과 사회복지사의 사례를 중심으로,” 『한국문화인류학』 54(1): 75-121.
 

2021b “From Coercion to Cooperation: Urban Governance and Evolving Modes of Control in a Beijing Village,” Critique of Anthropology 41(2): 128-148, “21 pages.” 

 
2021c “Formation of the Humane State and Politics of Gratefulness: A Case Study of a Model Social Welfare Center of Guangdong Shuangbai Plan, China,” Cross-Cultural Studies 27(1): 101-141, “41 pages” (Korean).
“인정(人情)국가의 형성과 감은(感恩)의 정치: 중국 광둥성 쌍백계획 모범 사회복지소의 사례를 중심으로,” 『비교문화연구』 27(1): 101-141.


2021d “Consuming Coffee, Creating Hyperreality: A Case Study of a Specialty Cafe in Fuyang, Guangdong Province, China,” Korean Cultural Anthropology 54(3): 85-123, “39 pages” (Korean).
 “중국 소도시 카페에서의 커피 소비와 초실재적(hyperreal) 경험의 구성: 광둥성 푸양시 신시가지(新区)의 스페셜티 카페의 사례를 중심으로,” 『한국문화인류학』 54(3): 85-123.


2019. Minjian Dynamism and Its Leading Role in Postsocialist Transformation: a Comparative Research on Borderland Areas of China and North Korea. Journal of Peace and Unification Studies 11(2): 217-268.
"포스트사회주의적 변화에서의 민간(民間)의 역동성과 선행성(先行性)", 『통일과평화』 11(2): 217-268

2018. Community Activism and Politics of Memory in China: A Case Study of Fuyang City, Guangdong Province. Journal of Cross-Cultural Studies 24(3): 5-53.
"중국 소도시 사구활동(社區活動)과 기억의 정치-광둥성 푸양시 구시가지를 중심으로", 『비교문화연구』 24(3): 5-53.

2016, “Chinese Governmentality and the Formation of Self-Disciplining Subjectivity of Labor: A Case Study on Chinese Women Migrant Workers in a “Model Village” of Beijing,” Cross-Cultural Studies 22(1): 227-64. (38 pages).
“중국적통치성과 자기규율적 노동주체성의 형성: 베이징 모범촌 거주 중국여성 농민공들을 중심으로,” 『비교문화연구』 22(1): 227-64.​


2015 From “Country Bumpkins” to “ Tough Workers”: The Pursuit of Masculinity among Male Factory Workers in China.” Anthropological Quarterly 88(1): 133-62. (30 pages).


2012, “Politics of “Culture” and Ethnicity in Multinational Corporations: a Case Study of Korean Multinational Corporations in Qingdao, China,” Journal of China Studie 59: 161-86. 
“중국 내 다국적 기업에서의 ‘문화’의 정치학: 칭다오 지역 한국계 다국적 기업을 중심으로 ,” 『중국학연구』 59: 161-86.​



[Miscellaneous Articles]
2010 Changing Politics of Cultural Hierarchy in South Korean Transnational Corporations in China. Wharton Asia Journal. Spring 2010(2): 13-17.



[Books]
2013 Chinese Labor in a Korean Factory: Class, Ethnicity, and Productivity on the Shop Floor in Globalizing China. Stanford University Press. (305 pages).



[Book Chapters]
2016 Chinese Migrant Workers’ Cynicism of Government and the Politics of “Decent” Wage. In Hans Steinmüller, ed. Irony, Cynicism, and the Chinese State, pp. 63-83. London: Routledge. (21 pages).


2016 Power, Space, and Subjectivity in a Transnational Garment Factory in China. In Mingwei Liu and Chris Smith, eds. China at Work: A Labour Process Perspective on the Transformation of Work and Employment in China, pp. 181-206. London: Palgrave-Macmillan. (26 pages).



[Book Reviews]
2021e “State and Entrepreneurs in the Reform-Era China: A Review on Chinese Capitalists within the Communist Party (Yoon Tae-hee),” Asia Review 11(3): 309-324, “16 pages” (Korean).
“개혁·개방기 중국 국가와 사영기업가: 치리(治理) 강화의 명분과 실리 추구의 동학(動學), 김태희 지음. 『공산당원이 된 중국 사영기업가들: 개혁기 중국의 국가-사영기업가 관계』(서울대학교 출판부, 2021)를 읽고, ”  『아시아리뷰』 11(3): 309-324.


2011 Patriotic Professionalism in Urban China: Fostering Talent (Lisa M. Hoffman). American Anthropologist: 113(3): 520-21. (2 pages).​
Recent Research Projects
1. Everyday Operations of the “Chinese Governmentality” on the Urban Poor 
(Fieldwork in “urban villages” of Beijing & Guangzhou)
2. Local Morality and the Local Intrusion of State Power 
(Fieldwork in Beijing & Qingdao)
3. Effects of Youth Unemployment on Nationalism and Patriotism
(Fieldwork in Beijing & Guangzhou) 
4. Issues of Local Development and Domestic Tourism
(Fieldwork in Fuyang)