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Author: Eunbong Park Publisher: ISBN: Category : Korea Languages : en Pages : 1256
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Faltering Silla and the Later Three Kingdoms; Wang Geon unifi es the Later Three Kingdoms; Goryeo: land of 'munbeol' aristocrats; Thirty years of war with the Khitans; Byeongnando: international port of 'Korea'. Goryeo, land of Buddhism. How did the people of Goryeo live? The military takes over. The struggle for a true meritocracy. Peasants and 'cheonin' take on the Mongols. The 'Tripitaka Koreana' and inlaid celadon: embodiments of the spirit of Goryeo. 'Samguk sagi' and 'Samguk yusa': two history books, two agendas. King Gongmin's reforms. Cotton and gunpowder.
Author: Eunbong Park Publisher: ISBN: Category : Korea Languages : en Pages : 1256
Book Description
Faltering Silla and the Later Three Kingdoms; Wang Geon unifi es the Later Three Kingdoms; Goryeo: land of 'munbeol' aristocrats; Thirty years of war with the Khitans; Byeongnando: international port of 'Korea'. Goryeo, land of Buddhism. How did the people of Goryeo live? The military takes over. The struggle for a true meritocracy. Peasants and 'cheonin' take on the Mongols. The 'Tripitaka Koreana' and inlaid celadon: embodiments of the spirit of Goryeo. 'Samguk sagi' and 'Samguk yusa': two history books, two agendas. King Gongmin's reforms. Cotton and gunpowder.
Author: Robert Neff Publisher: Seoul Selection ISBN: 1624120113 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 543
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John Mahelm Berry Sill's role as the American Minister to Korea (1894-1897) is one of controversy. He has been described as weak, ineffective, and reluctant by some and as independent, proactive, and alert by others, depending on the researcher. He served during an extremely turbulent period of Korean history, a span of time that encompassed the Sino-Japanese War, the Gabo Reforms, the murder of the Korean queen, and King Gojong's subsequent refuge in the Russian legation. While this book does utilize some diplomatic despatches, it generally relies upon the personal correspondences between the Sills in Korea and their family in the United States. These letters provide a candid view of life in not only the American community in Seoul, but also in the Russian legation, where King Gojong and the crown prince sought refuge following the murder of Queen Min. The letters also give evidence of the rumors and speculation that plagued the daily lives of not only the Western community in Seoul but the Korean community as well.
Author: Stella Xu Publisher: Lexington Books ISBN: 1498521452 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 249
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This book examines the contested re-readings of “Korea” in early Chinese historical records and their influence on the formation of Korean-ness in later periods. The earliest written records on “Koreans” are found in Chinese documents produced during the Han dynasty, from the third century BCE to the third century CE. Since then, these early Chinese records have been used as primary sources for writing early Korean history in Korea, China, and Japan. This study analyzes the various reinterpretations and utilizations of these early records that became more diverse by the late nineteenth century, when the reconstruction of ancient history became a crucial part of the formation of Korean national consciousness. Korea’s modern historiography was complicated by a thirty-five year colonial experience (1910–1945) under Japan. During this period, Japanese colonial scholars attempted to depict Korean history as stagnant, heteronymous, and replete with factional strife, while Korean nationalist historians strove to construct an indigenous Korean nation in order to mobilize Koreans’ national consciousness and recover political sovereignty. While focused on Korea and Northeast Asia, the links between historiography and political ideology investigated in this study are pertinent to historians in general.
Author: George Clayton Foulk Publisher: Lexington Books ISBN: 9780739120989 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 292
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America's Man in Korea is the story of America's initial involvement in Korea as told through the private family letters of U.S. Navy ensign George Clayton Foulk, Washington's representative in Seoul in the mid-1880s. "The Hermit Kingdom," as Korea was known, was no ordinary diplomatic posting at this time. Emerging from centuries of self-imposed isolation, Korea was struggling to establish itself as an independent nation amid the imperial rivalries of China, Japan, England, and Russia; anti-foreign violence remained a simmering threat; the Korean government was a hotbed of intrigue and factional strife, its monarch King Kojong casting about for help. Foulk, fluent in Korean and the foremost western expert on the country, was an astute observer of this country's transformation. In his private letters, published here for the first time, Foulk recounts his struggle to represent the U.S. and to help Korea in the face of State Department indifference.
Author: Carol Kim Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company ISBN: 0807541621 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 36
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A Junior Library Guild Selection March 2022 How do you create a new alphabet? In 15th-century Korea, King Sejong was distressed. The complicated Chinese characters used for reading and writing meant only rich, educated people could read—and that was just the way they wanted it. But King Sejong thought all Koreans should be able to read and write, so he worked in secret for years to create a new Korean alphabet. King Sejong's strong leadership and determination to bring equality to his country make his 600-year-old story as relevant as ever.
Author: JaHyun Kim Haboush Publisher: Columbia University Press ISBN: 0231519591 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 465
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By expanding the definition of "epistle" to include any writing that addresses the intended receiver directly, JaHyun Kim Haboush introduces readers to the rich epistolary practice of Chos?n Korea. The Chos?n dynasty (1392-1910) produced an abundance of epistles, writings that mirror the genres of neighboring countries (especially China) while retaining their own specific historical trajectory. Written in both literary Chinese and vernacular Korean, the writings collected here range from royal public edicts to private letters, a fascinating array that blurs the line between classical and everyday language and the divisions between men and women. Haboush's selections also recast the relationship between epistolography and the concept of public and private space. Haboush groups her epistles according to where they were written and read: public letters, letters to colleagues and friends, social letters, and family letters. Then she arranges them according to occasion: letters on leaving home, deathbed letters, letters of fiction, and letters to the dead. She examines the mechanics of epistles, their communicative space, and their cultural and political meaning. With its wholly unique collection of materials, Epistolary Korea produces more than a vivid chronicle of pre- and early modern Korean life. It breaks new ground in establishing the terms of a distinct, non-European form of epistolography.
Author: Ann Marie Publisher: ISBN: 9780989378802 Category : Korean War, 1950-1953 Languages : en Pages : 184
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With North Korea rattling its saber again, Letters to Ann takes the reader back to the early years of the Korean War. Even in some of its darkest moments, Captain John Hughes finds and shares bits of humor about his daily military existence with his then four year-old daughter. It is a unique perspective of what so often is called "The Forgotten War."
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