Wrongful deaths : selected inquest records from nineteenth-century Korea /

"This collection presents and analyzes inquest records that tell the stories of ordinary Korean people under the Chosŏn 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 examinati...

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Главный автор: Kim, Sun Joo, 1962-
Другие авторы: Kim, Jungwon
Формат: Электронный ресурс eКнига
Язык:английский
Опубликовано: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2014]
Серии:Korean studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies
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Оглавление:
  • Map of Nineteenth-Century Korea
  • Introduction: Chosŏn Korea in Its Last Century
  • Case 1: An Adulterous Widower Meets a Violent Death, Yang Hang-nyŏn (P'yŏngyang, P'yŏngan Province, 1866)
  • Case 2: A Family Activist Confronts a Local Magnate, Ms. Pak (Yongin, Kyŏnggi Province, Late Eighteenth Century)
  • Case 3: A Defiant Slave Challenges His Master with Death, Yi Pong-dol (Anoi, Kyŏngsang Province, 1842)
  • Case 4: Two Widows Fight, Madam Chang and Ms. On (Yech'ŏn, Kyŏngsang Province, 1842)
  • Case 5: A Heartless Wet Nurse Abuses an Infant, Mun Chong-ji (Chunghwa, P'yŏngan Province, 1866)
  • Case 6: A Widower Seeks Private Settlement, Ms. Chŏng (Yŏngchʻŏn, Kyŏngsang Province, 1889)
  • Case 7: Adultery Leads to Murder, Ms. Paek (Anak, Hwanghae Province, 1897)
  • Case 8: An Illegal Burial Begets a Son but Kills a Relative, Kim Kap-san (Hoeyang, Kangwŏn Province, 1899)
  • Glossary.