Hyun_Jin_Kim

Hyun Jin Kim

Hyun Jin Kim

Australian Academic

Hyun Jin Kim FAHA (born 1982) is an Australian academic, scholar and author.[1][2][3][4]

Quick Facts Born, Nationality ...

He was born in Seoul and raised in Auckland, New Zealand.[5] Kim got his Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Oxford.[6] He started learning Latin, German, and French when he was 10, and was urged to study Ancient Greek in university by his father. He is a scholar of ancient Greece, Rome and China. Kim has published several works on Eurasian/ Central Asian peoples, such as the Huns.[7][1][8][9] In 2019, Kim was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.[10][11]

His work focuses chiefly on comparative analyses of ancient Greece/Rome and China.[1][12][13] His first major work on such topic was Ethnicity and Foreigners in Ancient Greece and China, published in 2009.[14][15]

Selected list of works

  • Kim, Hyun Jin (2009). Ethnicity and Foreigners in Ancient Greece and China. London: Duckworth Books. ISBN 9780715638071.
  • Kim, Hyun Jin (2013). The Huns, Rome and the Birth of Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107067226.
  • Kim, Hyun Jin (2016). The Huns. Abingdon-on-Thames: Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9781317340904.
  • Kim, Hyun Jin (2017). Eurasian Empires in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages: Contact and Exchange Between the Graeco-Roman World, Inner Asia and China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107190412.
  • Kim, Hyun Jin (2018). Geopolitics in Late Antiquity: The Fate of Superpowers from China to Rome. Abingdon-on-Thames: Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9781351869263.
  • Kim, Hyun Jin; Lieu, Samuel N.C.; McLaughlin, Raoul (2021). Rome and China Points of Contact. Abingdon-on-Thames: Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9781315280714.
  • Cha, Hyeonji; Kim, Hyun Jin (2022). South Korea's Origins and Early Relations with the United States: The Lynchpin of Hegemonic Power. Abingdon-on-Thames: Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9781000578867.

References

  1. [1]
    "The Greco-Roman and Chinese Ancient Worlds in Comparative Perspective". University of Melbourne. 17 May 2020. Retrieved 9 November 2022.
  2. [2]
    "Book Review of The Huns (Peoples of the Ancient World) by Hyun Jin Kim". www.unrv.com. Retrieved 9 November 2022.
  3. [3]
    Vankeerberghen, Griet (2021). Rulers and Ruled in Ancient Greece, Rome, and China. Cambridge University Press. p. 10. ISBN 9781108485777. Retrieved 9 November 2022.
  4. [4]
    Almagor, Eran; Skinner, Joseph (2013). Ancient Ethnography New Approaches. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781472537591. Retrieved 9 November 2022.
  5. [5]
    Pyrros, John (16 December 2014). "Ancient Greek picking up in numbers". Neos Kosmos. Retrieved 9 November 2022.
  6. [6]
    Drake, Harold Allen; Raphals, Lisa Ann; Pu, Muzhou (2017). Old Society, New Belief Religious Transformation of China and Rome, Ca. 1st-6th Centuries. Oxford University Press. p. 12. ISBN 9780190278359. Retrieved 10 November 2022. [Kim] is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Melbourne. He took his DPhil from the University of Oxford [...]
  7. [7]
    Horesh, Niv (June 2021). Empires in World History Commonality, Divergence and Contingency. Springer Nature Singapore. p. 53. ISBN 9789811615405. Retrieved 9 November 2022.
  8. [8]
    Roussinos, Aris (27 July 2022). "The fate of Europe lies in the steppes". UnHerd. Retrieved 9 November 2022.
  9. [9]
    Kim, Hyun Jin; Vervaet, Frederik Juliaan; Ferruh Adali, Selim (2017). Eurasian Empires in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages: Contact and Exchange between the Graeco-Roman World, Inner Asia and China. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-19041-2.
  10. [10]
    "Hyun Jin Kim". Australian Academy of the Humanities. Retrieved 2022-11-11.
  11. [11]
    "New Fellows of the Australian Academy of the Humanities announced". University of Melbourne. 19 November 2019. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
  12. [12]
    Sweet, Michael (30 April 2015). "Greek culture first global culture". Neos Kosmos. Retrieved 9 November 2022.
  13. [13]
    Barbieri-Low, Anthony J. (17 July 2021). Ancient Egypt and Early China State, Society, and Culture. University of Washington Press. p. 9. ISBN 9780295748900. Retrieved 9 November 2022. Hyun Jin Kim has recently published a book which compares the Greek and Chinese portrayals of the barbarian"other"
  14. [14]
    Jamieson Beecroft, Alexander (December 2011). "Review". International Journal of the Classical Tradition. 18 (4). Springer: 606–610. JSTOR 41474743.
  15. [15]
    Sheldon, J. S.; Mackerras, C. P. (July 2010). "Review of Books". Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 20 (3). Cambridge University Press: 370–377. doi:10.1017/S135618631000009X. JSTOR 25700462. S2CID 162525320. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
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