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 amazingly vivid, colloquial account of the vibrant,
multifaceted societal and legal cultures of early modern Korea.
Sun Joo Kim is the Harvard-Yenching Professor of Korean History
at Harvard University. Jungwon Kim is assistant professor of Korean
history at Columbia University.
"This book provides an extremely rare view into social
interactions among people of quite different classes in Choson
Korea. Points of interest abound." --Robert E. Hegel, Washington
University, St. Louis
"This is an important contribution that significantly advances
our knowledge of nineteenth-century Korean legal history. The
translated cases shine by being able to introduce daily struggles
of nonelites and illustrate the complex dynamics of the judiciary
system during the last century of the Choson dynasty." -Jisoo Kim,
George Washington University
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