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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 | |