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List of Images and Boxes | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Note on Romanization | |
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Brief Chronology of Korean History | |
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Map of Korea | |
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Introduction | |
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Koguryo and Ancient Korea | |
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The Great Battle of Salsu River, 612 | |
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Ancient Korea and Koguryo | |
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The rise and fall of Koguryo | |
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Koguryo and Korean history | |
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Queen Sondok and Silla's Unification of Korea | |
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Silla's dispatch of a tribute embassy to China, 643 | |
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Buddhism and power | |
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Legends of the unification | |
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Silla's �winning� features | |
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The Unified Silla Kingdom | |
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The assassination of Chang Pogo, 846 | |
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Chang Pogo, Ch'oe Ch'iwon, and Unified Silla society | |
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Silla and northeast Asia | |
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Local strongmen and the end of Silla | |
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Founding of the Koryo Dynasty | |
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The issuance of Wang Kon's �Ten Injunctions,� 943 | |
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�Great Founder of Korea� | |
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Content of the Ten Injunctions | |
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Legacy | |
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Religion and Regionalism in the Koryo Order | |
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The outbreak of the Myoch'ong Rebellion, 1135 | |
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The institutionalized influence of the Buddhist clergy | |
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Myoch'ong's rebellion | |
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Aftermath | |
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The Mongol Overlord Period | |
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The marriage of Lady Ki to the Yuan emperor, 1340 | |
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The Mongol conquest | |
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Koryo women in the Mongol empire | |
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Koryo-Choson Transition | |
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Yi Pangwon's purge of Chong Tojon, 1398 | |
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Chong Tojon: From mastermind to political power | |
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A renaissance, revolution, or coup? | |
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Yi Pangwon's impact | |
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Confucianism and the Family in the Early Choson Dynasty | |
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The drafting of the Yi family inheritance testament, 1541 | |
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Early Choson Confucianism | |
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Confucian family law and women's standing | |
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The Great Invasions, 1592-1636 | |
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The return to duty of Admiral Yi Sunsin, 1597 | |
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Problems in the Korean response | |
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Narratives of heroism | |
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The regional order remade | |
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Ideology, Family, and Nationhood in the Mid-Choson Era | |
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The birth of a son to Lady Chang, 1688 | |
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King Sukchong's triangles | |
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Famous females | |
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Latency of the mid-Choson order | |
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Intellectual Opening in the Late Eighteenth Century | |
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The return of Pak Chega to Korea, 1778 | |
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�Utility for the greater good� | |
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The sprouts of modernity? | |
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Popular Culture in the Late Choson Era | |
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Publication of Observations from the Countryside, 1862 | |
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Tales of the people | |
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Other cultural forms | |
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Popular culture and social consciousness | |
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Nineteenth-Century Unrest | |
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The destruction of the American merchant ship, the General Sherman, 1866 | |
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The nineteenth century issue and internal problems | |
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The arrival of imperialism | |
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1894, A Fateful Year | |
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The occupation of the royal palace by Japanese soldiers, July 1894 | |
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The Tonghak spark | |
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A shrimp caught in a whale fight | |
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The spirit of Kabo | |
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The Great Korean Empire | |
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The opening of the Seoul-Inch'on rail line, 1899 | |
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Korea and the new empires | |
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Trade and industry | |
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The spirit of enlightenment | |
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The Japanese Takeover, 1904-18 | |
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The secret mission to The Hague, 1907 | |
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Autonomy and modern history | |
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Force and pushback | |
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The deft hand of conquest | |
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The Long 1920s | |
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Opening of a special exhibition of Na Hyesok's paintings, 1921 | |
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The March First movement and cultural rule | |
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Korean females in the new age | |
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Religion and social change | |
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Nation, Culture, and Everyday Life in the Late Colonial Period | |
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The doctoring of a newspaper photo of the Olympic marathon champion, 1936 | |
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Expression, within limits | |
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The quotidian blossoming of modern culture | |
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Wartime Mobilization, 1938-45 | |
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The visit by authors Yi Kwangsu and Ch'oe Namson to Japan, 1943 | |
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Industrialization and state domination | |
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Resignation, collaboration, and modern identity | |
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The grand narrative: Independence movements | |
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The Liberation Period, 1945-50 | |
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The May elections in southern Korea, 1948 | |
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The primacy of politics: A multi-lateral dynamic | |
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Implanting the southern system | |
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A troubling historical shadow | |
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The Korean War | |
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The Chinese entrance into the Korean war, November 1950 | |
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Civil wars amidst the cold war | |
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6-25 | |
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Chinese intervention and the stalemate | |
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Early North Korea | |
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Kim II Sung's �Juche� speech, 1955 | |
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Liberation space North Korea | |
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The formative fifties | |
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Juche, history, and legitimacy | |
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1960s South Korea | |
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Demonstrations against the normalization of relations with Japan, spring 1964 | |
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Dictatorship, democracy, and revolutions | |
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Park Chung Hee | |
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Economic takeoff | |
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Youth and angst | |
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Culture and Politics in 1970s South Korea | |
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Publication of Kim Chiha's �Five Bandits,� May 1970 | |
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The Yusin decade | |
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Literary resistance | |
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Mass culture under the Yusin | |
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Monumental Life in North Korea | |
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Groundbreaking for the Ryugyong Hotel, 1987 | |
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The historical challenge | |
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Historical path, 1970s to 2000s | |
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Monumental life | |
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South Korean Democratization | |
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The June Declaration of 1987 | |
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The prelude: Kwangju, May 1980 | |
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The democracy generation | |
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The 1987 declaration and election | |
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South Korea in the New Millennium | |
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Quarterfinal match versus Spain in the 2002 World Cup finals | |
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Economic growth: A reconsideration | |
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Women and family: Seismic shifts | |
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Toward a new era | |
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Sources and Further Readings | |
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Index | |