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Marginality and Subversion in Korea
The Hong Kyongnae Rebellion of 1812
In the history of Korea, the nineteenth century is often considered an age of popular rebellions. Scholarly approaches have typically pointed to these rebellions as evidence of the progressive direction of the period, often using...
ISBN: 9780295989310
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Wrongful Deaths
Selected Inquest Records from Nineteenth-Century Korea
This collection presents and analyzes inquest records that tell the stories of ordinary Korean people under the Choson court (1392-1910). Extending the study of this period, usually limited to elites, into the realm of everyday...
ISBN: 9780295993133
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The Northern Region of Korea
History, Identity, and Culture
The residents of the three northern provinces of Korea have long had cultural and linguistic characteristics that have marked them as distinct from their brethren in the central area near the capital and in the...
ISBN: 9780295990415
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