Hyun Jin Kim
Born1982
Seoul, South Korea
NationalityNew Zealand
Alma materUniversity of Oxford
Scientific career
FieldsClassics
Sinology
InstitutionsUniversity of Melbourne

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

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

References

  1. ^ a b c "The Greco-Roman and Chinese Ancient Worlds in Comparative Perspective". University of Melbourne. 17 May 2020. Retrieved 9 November 2022.
  2. ^ "Book Review of The Huns (Peoples of the Ancient World) by Hyun Jin Kim". www.unrv.com. Retrieved 9 November 2022.
  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. ^ Almagor, Eran; Skinner, Joseph (2013). Ancient Ethnography New Approaches. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781472537591. Retrieved 9 November 2022.
  5. ^ Pyrros, John (16 December 2014). "Ancient Greek picking up in numbers". Neos Kosmos. Retrieved 9 November 2022.
  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. ^ Horesh, Niv (June 2021). Empires in World History Commonality, Divergence and Contingency. Springer Nature Singapore. p. 53. ISBN 9789811615405. Retrieved 9 November 2022.
  8. ^ Roussinos, Aris (27 July 2022). "The fate of Europe lies in the steppes". UnHerd. Retrieved 9 November 2022.
  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. ^ "Hyun Jin Kim". Australian Academy of the Humanities. Retrieved 2022-11-11.
  11. ^ "New Fellows of the Australian Academy of the Humanities announced". University of Melbourne. 19 November 2019. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
  12. ^ Sweet, Michael (30 April 2015). "Greek culture first global culture". Neos Kosmos. Retrieved 9 November 2022.
  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. ^ Jamieson Beecroft, Alexander (December 2011). "Review". International Journal of the Classical Tradition. Springer. 18 (4): 606–610. JSTOR 41474743.
  15. ^ Sheldon, J. S.; Mackerras, C. P. (July 2010). "Review of Books". Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. Cambridge University Press. 20 (3): 370–377. doi:10.1017/S135618631000009X. JSTOR 25700462. S2CID 162525320. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
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