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Séminaire pluridisciplinaire 2012-2013Centre de recherches sur la Corée (CRC), EHESSOwen Miller (SOAS, invité EPEL) donnera une conférence :“Chosŏn's economic crisis of the 1880s in its domestic and global contexts” le 7 décembre 2012Le séminaire a lieu de 14h à 16h dans la salle des séminaires au RdC ou dans le Grand Salon au 1er étage de la Maison de l’Asie, 22 avenue du Président WilsonAbstract:The late nineteenth century was generally a time of crisis for Chosŏn, but during the 1880s in particular, the country faced a catastrophic economic crisis marked by rampant inflation and government insolvency. Debates continue over the causes of this crisis, with varying emphases placed on the respective impacts of Chosŏn’s very recent entry into the global capitalist system and the state’s fiscal crisis, which had been brewing for a number of decades. This paper seeks to clarify further the nature and causes of this period of crisis and place it as far as possible within a wider global economic context. More specifically, since the period of most intense economic crisis in Korea coincided with the ‘Long Depression’ (1873-1896), this paper will investigate what effects, if any, the global crisis had on Chosŏn. By combining my own primary source research on commodity prices (using merchants’ account books and government periodicals) with the latest research on Chosŏn government economic policy, inflation, the fiscal crisis and the issue of international trade and treaties, this study will begin to develop a more concrete understanding of the 1880s crisis and its effects on Korean society. The paper will tentatively locate the origins of the crisis in a particular combination of the disturbance produced by forced entry into the world market and the disastrous effects of fiscal decline on a national economy previously dominated by a redistributive tax state.&#160;SOURCE : Centre de recherches sur la Corée, UMR 8173 “Chine, Corée, Japon” CNRS-EHESS&#160;&#160;