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Looking at colour can be a way not only to think within or about culture but also to probe the boundaries of cultural approaches. The ""Cultural Turn,"" as it has been called, has made an impact across disciplines. In history, it replaced long-established explanatory models provided by Marxism and modernisation theory. Even fields like art history and literature, which always considered themselves allied to the arts rather than to the sciences, were reshaped by new understandings of culture - for instance, as a much larger system of meaning in which the works they studied were a part. But ""culture"" is notoriously murky, and its analytical use can obfuscate patterns of causality. This volume analyses how looking at colour can take us further.

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Dr. Sungshin Kim is a historian of East Asia specializing in China and Korea. After receiving her M.A. from Fudan University (Shanghai), she came to the United States where she earned her Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on political legitimacy, ritual and power in China and Korea in the early modern and modern periods. Her current project focuses on exile in Chosun Korea as a way to explain the evolution of its political system using literary sources.

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