Owen Miller
BA MA PhD (SOAS, London)
Overview
Name:Dr Owen MillerEmail address:om4@soas.ac.ukTelephone:+44(0) 20 7898 4363Address:SOAS University of LondonThornhaugh Street, Russell Square, LondonWC1H 0XGBuilding:Russell Square: College BuildingsOffice No:408On Sabbatical:Term 1 - 2018/19
Biography
Owen initially studied East Asian history at SOAS as an undergraduate and subsequently lived in South Korea, where he studied Korean language at Yonsei University. He returned to SOAS in 2001 to study for an MA and then a PhD in Korean history, focusing on merchant guilds in late nineteenth century Seoul. Prior to coming to SOAS as a lecturer in Korean Studies, Owen worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at Robinson College, University of Cambridge.
Current research interests include: the social and economic history of 19th and 20th century Korea; urban history; Korean nationalist and Marxist historiographies; the economic history of North Korea; and state formation in Northeast Asia.
Modules Taught
Connections and Intersections: Core Aspects of East Asian Studies
History and Memory in East Asian Cultures
K301: Korean Readings
Korean 1 A
Readings in Modern Korean Society
The Making of Modern Korea, 1864-1953
The Other Korea: North Korea since 1945
The Two Koreas since 1953 (PG)
Trajectories of Modernity in Korean Literature
PhD Students supervised
Iris Lim, Experiencing the Digital Governance Immigration: a Qualitative Comparison of London and Seoul
Yejin Kim, Translation, Ideology and National Identity in the Liberation Period of Korea (1948-1953)
Yeonju Lee, Korean New Religions and the Construction of Nationalism
BA MA PhD (SOAS, London)
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Teaching
Research
Expertise
Publications
Authored Books
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Shin, Michael (ed.) and Injae, Lee and Miller, Owen and Jinhoon, Park (2014) Korean History in Maps: From Prehistory to the Twenty-First Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Articles
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Miller, Owen (2016) 'War, the state, and the formation of the North Korean industrial working class, 1931-1960'. Third World Quarterly, (37) 10, pp 1901-1920.
Miller, Owen (2010) 'The idea of stagnation in Korean historiography from Fukuda Tokuzō to the New Right'. Korean Histories, (2) 1, pp 3-12.
Miller, Owen (2010) 'Marxism and East Asian History: From Eurocentrism and Nationalism to Marxist Universalism'. Marxism 21, (7) 3, pp 202-238.
Miller, Owen (2007) 'The Myonjujon Documents: Accounting Methods and Merchants' Organisations in Nineteenth Century Korea'. Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies, (7) 1, pp 87-114.
Miller, Owen (2007) 'Ties of Labour and Ties of Commerce: Corvée Labour among Seoul Merchants in the Nineteenth Century'. Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, (50) 1, pp 41-71.
Book Chapters
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Miller, Owen (2016) 'The Uneven, Combined, and Intersocietal Dimensions of Korean State Formation and Consolidation over the Longue Durée: 300–1900 CE'. In: Anievas, Alexander and Matin, Kamran, (eds.), Historical Sociology and World History: Uneven and Combined Development over the Longue Durée. London; New York: Rowman & Littlefield, pp 53-72.
Miller, Owen (2016) 'The transformation of the Chosŏn economy in the Open Port Period, 1876–1910'. In: Seth, Michael, (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Modern Korean History. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, pp 81-94.
Miller, Owen (2013) 'Tobacco and the gift economy of Seoul merchants in the late nineteenth century'. In: Jackson, Andrew David, (ed.), Key Papers on Korea: Essays Celebrating 25 Years of the Centre of Korean Studies, SOAS, University of London. Leiden: Brill, pp 27-40.
Miller, Owen (2011) 'Haebang chŏnhu Chŏn Sŏktam ŭi yŏksahak: kŭndae kungmin kukka ro ihaeng kwa malksŭjuŭi yŏksahak'. Cheguk kwa minjok ŭi kyoch’a ro. Seoul: Ch'aekkwa hamkke, pp 225-254.
Miller, Owen (2010) 'Sijŏn-kukka kan kŏrae wa 19-segi huban Chosŏn ŭi kyŏngje wigi: Myŏnjujŏn sangin ŭl chungsim ŭro [Guild-government trade and Chosŏn’s late nineteenth century economic crisis: focusing on the Myŏnjujŏn merchants]'. In: Hun-chang, Lee, (ed.), Chosŏn hugi chaejŏng kwa sijang. Seoul: Seoul National University PRess.
Translations
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Miller, Owen and Tikhonov, Vladimir (2008) 'Selected Writings of Han Yongun: From Social Darwinism to ‘Socialism with a Buddhist Face’' .
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