A New History of KoreaThe first English-language history of Korea to appear in more than a decade, this translation offers Western readers a distillation of the latest and best scholarship on Korean history and culture from the earliest times to the student revolution of 1960. The most widely read and respected general history, A New History of Korea (Han’guksa sillon) was first published in 1961 and has undergone two major revisions and updatings. |
Contents
Society and Culture in the Neolithic Period
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5 |
Aristocratic Societies Under Monarchical Rule
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36 |
The Foreign Relations of the Three Kingdoms
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45 |
The Aristocratic Culture of the Three Kingdoms
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57 |
The Fashioning of an Authoritarian Monarchy
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66 |
The Flourishing of Silla Culture
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81 |
The Society and Culture of Parhae
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88 |
Unification by Koryo
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101 |
Changes in the System of Tax Collection
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224 |
Sirhak and Other New Intellectual Concerns
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232 |
New Modes of Expression in the Arts
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243 |
Tremors in the Yangban Status System
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250 |
The Reforms and Isolation Policy of the Taewongun
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263 |
The Reform Movement of the Progressive Party
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275 |
The Reform of 1894
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290 |
Nationalist Stirrings and Imperialist Aggression
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300 |
The Hereditary Aristocratic Order of Koryo
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110 |
Aristocratic Society and the Economic Structure
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120 |
Aristocratic Culture
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129 |
Disturbances in the Aristocratic Order
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136 |
The Military Rule of the Choe
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145 |
The Culture of the Age of the Military
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153 |
Growth of the Power of the Literati
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160 |
The Creation of a Yangban Society
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172 |
Social and Economic Structure of the Yangban
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182 |
Yangban Bureaucratic Culture
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192 |
The Rise of the NeoConfucian Literati
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201 |
The Struggle Against the Japanese and Manchus
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209 |
The Culture of the NeoConfucian Literati
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217 |
Japanese Aggression and the Struggle
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306 |
Japanese Economic Aggression and Korean Capital
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317 |
The Patriotic Enlightenment Movement
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327 |
The March First Movement
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338 |
Development of the Nationalist Movement
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346 |
Native Capital and the Condition of Korean
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354 |
The Preservation of Korean Culture
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367 |
The Beginnings of Democracy
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373 |
The Korean War
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379 |
Dynastic Lineages
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387 |
Select Bibliography
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395 |
IndexGlossary
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414 |