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Dr. Tae Hyun KIM 金泰炫
Independent ScholarPremodern Religion and Literature
PhD in Chinese and Critical Theory, UC Berkeley
As a writer,
Dr. Kim recently authored a book titled Korean Neo-Confucian Perspectives on Laozi and Zhuangzi (Three Pines Press, 2026) and has an active publication program in premodern Korean philosophy and religion, with multiple research monographs and annotated translations scheduled for publication in 2027 and 2028.
As a translator,
Dr. Kim has devoted much of his research to translating major premodern Korean and Chinese religious, philosophical, and literary classics into English, making a number of important but previously inaccessible texts available to Western scholarship for the first time.
As a scholar,
Dr. Kim has conducted extensive research on excavated manuscripts and archaeological discoveries from early China and has published numerous articles, book chapters, and conference papers on the intellectual and historical development of Early China. His research has explored the textual formation of the received classics, the construction of historical narratives and collective memory in early political culture, and the reconstruction of early Chinese intellectual history. More recently, he has expanded his research to include premodern Korean religious, philosophical, literary, and historical texts that have received comparatively little attention in Western scholarship.
As a professor,
Dr. Kim has taught extensively on the religions, literature, and intellectual history of premodern China and Korea at the University of California, Berkeley, Washington University in St. Louis, and Emory University, offering courses to both undergraduate and graduate students..
And... As a decent human being,
Outside his academic work, Dr. Kim enjoys painting, photography, playing music, watching films, and backpacking around the world.**
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