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  • Virtue That Matters

    Chastity Culture and Social Power in Chosŏn Korea (1392–1910)

    by Jungwon Kim ...
    Series Book 477 - Harvard East Asian Monographs
    Virtue That Matters is a groundbreaking exploration of the intricate dynamics of chastity culture in Chosŏn Korea from 1392 to 1910, shedding light on its political, legal, social, and cultural significance. In this book, Jungwon Kim demonstrates how an emphasis on female chastity came to pervade society as it intertwined with state ideology and elite interests. By analyzing a copious range of ... Read more

    $49.19 USD

  • Emotions, Affect, and Narrative in Korean History and Culture

    by Dr. Dafna Zur, Gregg Brazinsky, United through Separation Hyaeweol Choi, John Song Pae Cho, Jungwon Kim, Suzy Kim ...
    Series series Hawai‘i Studies on Korea
    This collection of eleven essays explores emotions and affect in Korean culture across a broad temporal span, from the Koryŏ dynasty (918–1392) to the present. Drawing on a diverse array of sources—including memoirs, diplomatic letters, newspapers, films, video diaries, photographs, and ethnographic interviews—the volume examines how emotions intervene in public discourse and how affect is shaped, ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Wrongful Deaths

    Selected Inquest Records from Nineteenth-Century Korea

    Series series Korean Studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies
    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 life, each inquest record includes a detailed postmortem examination and features testimony from everyone directly or indirectly related to the incident. The result is an ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Beyond Death

    The Politics of Suicide and Martyrdom in Korea

    by Clark W. Sorensen ...
    Series series Center For Korea Studies Publications
    Suicide and martyrdom are closely intertwined with Korean social and political processes. In this first book-length study of the evolving ideals of honorable death and martyrdom from the Chosŏn Dynasty (1392–1910) to contemporary South Korea, interdisciplinary essays explore the changing ways in which Korean historical agents have considered what constitutes a sociopolitically meaningful death and ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

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    by Bret Hinsch ...
    Series series Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
    Masculinities in Chinese History is the first historical survey of the many ways men have acted, thought, and behaved throughout China’s long past. Bret Hinsch introduces readers to the basic characteristics of historical Chinese masculinity while highlighting the dynamic changes in male identity over the centuries. He covers the full span of Chinese history, from the Zhou dynasty in distant ... Read more

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  • Mapping China and Managing the World

    Culture, Cartography and Cosmology in Late Imperial Times

    by Richard J. Smith ...
    Series series Asia's Transformations/Critical Asian Scholarship
    From the founding of the Qin dynasty in 221 BCE to the present, the Chinese have been preoccupied with the notion of ordering their world. Efforts to create and maintain order are expressed not only in China’s bureaucratic institutions and methods of social and economic organization but also in Chinese philosophy, religious and secular ritual, and comprehensive systems of classifying all natural ... Read more

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  • The Great East Asian War and the Birth of the Korean Nation

    by JaHyun Kim Haboush ...
    The Imjin War (1592–1598) was a grueling conflict that wreaked havoc on the towns and villages of the Korean Peninsula. The involvement of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean forces, not to mention the regional scope of the war, was the largest the world had seen, and the memory dominated East Asian memory until World War II. Despite massive regional realignments, Korea's Chosôn Dynasty endured, but ... Read more

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  • The Origins of the Choson Dynasty

    by John B. Duncan ...
    Series series Korean Studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies
    The Origins of the Choson Dynasty provides an exhaustive analysis of the structure and composition of Korea's central officialdom during the transition from the Koryo dynasty (918-1392) to the Choson dynasty (1392-1910) and offers a new interpretation of the history of traditional Korea. ... Read more

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  • Lives of Confucius

    Civilization's Greatest Sage Through the Ages

    by Michael Nylan, Thomas Wilson ...
    Confucius—“Master Kung” (551–479 BCE), the Chinese thinker and social philosopher—originated teachings that have deeply influenced Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and Vietnamese thought and life over many centuries. His philosophy emphasized personal and governmental morality, justice, and appropriateness in social relationships. In time these values gained prominence in China over other doctrines, ... Read more

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  • From the Soil

    The Foundations of Chinese Society

    by Xiaotong Fei ...
    This classic text by Fei Xiaotong, China's finest social scientist, was first published in 1947 and is Fei's chief theoretical statement about the distinctive characteristics of Chinese society. Written in Chinese from a Chinese point of view for a Chinese audience, From the Soil describes the contrasting organizational principles of Chinese and Western societies, thereby conveying the essential ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Gender and Sexuality in Modern Chinese History

    by Susan L. Mann ...
    Series Book 9 - New Approaches to Asian History
    Gender and sexuality have been neglected topics in the history of Chinese civilization, despite the fact that there is a massive amount of historical evidence on the subject. China's late imperial government was arguably more concerned about gender and sexuality among its subjects than any other pre-modern state. How did these and other late imperial legacies shape twentieth-century notions of ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • The Emotions of Justice

    Gender, Status, and Legal Performance in Choson Korea

    by Jisoo M. Kim ...
    Series series Korean Studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies
    The Choson state (1392–1910) is typically portrayed as a rigid society because of its hereditary status system, slavery, and Confucian gender norms. However, The Emotions of Justice reveals a surprisingly complex picture of a judicial system that operated in a contradictory fashion by discriminating against subjects while simultaneously minimizing such discrimination. Jisoo Kim contends that the ... Read more

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