This is a talk I gave on how, in his "Silk Letter" (written in 1801), Alexius Hwang Sayong sought to justify foreign intervention in Korea by presenting Catholics as innocent and virtuous martyrs and representatives of the Choson state as wicked. I gave this presentation at the 2010 Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, March 26, 2010. The presentation itself was based on an article I wrote, Wicked Officials and Virtuous Martyrs: an Analysis of the Martyr Biographies in Alexius Hwang Sayŏng's Silk Letter." Kyohoesa Yon'gu [Research Journal of Korean Church History], no. 32 (July 2009): 5-30. I would be happy to provide copies of this article to anyone interested in reading it.
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