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This anthology presents new translations of Korean prose works from
the tenth to the nineteenth century. It offers insight into past
Korean societies by highlighting genres that have largely not been
translated, such as diaries, short fictional biographies, erotic
tales, oral narratives, and novellas, all of which illustrate the
depth and variety of premodern Korean writings. The selections are
intended to show what literate people of the premodern period
enjoyed reading and demonstrate the cultural diversity of the
creation of literature, including a range of writings by women and
nonelites such as commoners. The volume also includes critical
essays and short introductions to contextualize the materials and
explain the ideological backdrop behind the creation of the works.
This anthology presents new translations of Korean prose works from
the tenth to the nineteenth century. It offers insight into past
Korean societies by highlighting genres that have largely not been
translated, such as diaries, short fictional biographies, erotic
tales, oral narratives, and novellas, all of which illustrate the
depth and variety of premodern Korean writings. The selections are
intended to show what literate people of the premodern period
enjoyed reading and demonstrate the cultural diversity of the
creation of literature, including a range of writings by women and
nonelites such as commoners. The volume also includes critical
essays and short introductions to contextualize the materials and
explain the ideological backdrop behind the creation of the works.
This anthology is an exciting new collection of Korean fiction in
translation from the early years of the twentieth century that
demonstrate the political and ideological divides that Koreans
experienced during this time.
This anthology is an exciting new collection of Korean fiction in
translation from the early years of the twentieth century that
demonstrate the political and ideological divides that Koreans
experienced during this time.
This volume is a fully annotated translation of an early
nineteenth-century encyclopedia, the Kyuhap ch'ongso (The
Encyclopedia of Daily Life). Written by Lady Yi (1759-1824) as a
household management aid for her daughters and daughters-in-law,
the work is a treasure trove of information on how women of higher
status in the late Choson (1392-1910) ran their households and
conducted their daily lives. The encyclopedia opens with lengthy
sections on making beverages and brewing a wide array of liquors
(as well as remedies for the overconsumption of alcohol) and
contains dozens of recipes for dishes ranging from numerous types
of kimch'i to confections and rice cakes. The second part of the
translation concerns prenatal care, childbirth, childrearing, and
first aid for a large number of afflictions and medical conditions.
An extensive introduction will help readers understand the times in
which Lady Yi wrote her encyclopedia and the influences that
fostered her love of scholarship. The work demonstrates the full
sweep of her authority in the domestic sphere and the many aspects
of day-to-day life that women needed to prepare for and manage. Her
mastery of East Asian cosmology comes across clearly in her use of
this knowledge to account for the workings of the world, the
processes required to take care of one's body, and interactions
between humans and the natural world. The Encyclopedia of Daily
Life will be an important reference for those studying medicine,
botany, and the preparation of foodstuffs in premodern East Asian
societies. It will also be a valuable linguistic reference to the
Korean language during the late Choson.
Death and the activities and beliefs surrounding it can teach us
much about the ideals and cultures of the living. While
biologically death is an end to physical life, this break is not
quite so apparent in its mental and spiritual aspects. Indeed, the
influence of the dead over the living is sometimes much greater
than before death. This volume takes a multidisciplinary approach
in an effort to provide a fuller understanding of both historic and
contemporary practices linked with death in Korea. Contributors
from Korea and the West incorporate the approaches of archaeology,
history, literature, religion, and anthropology in addressing a
number of topics organized around issues of the body, disposal of
remains, ancestor worship and rites, and the afterlife. The first
two chapters explore the ways in which bodies of the dying and the
dead were dealt with from the Greater Silla Kingdom (668–935) to
the mid-twentieth century. Grave construction and goods,
cemeteries, and memorial monuments in the Koryo (918–1392) and
the twentieth century are then discussed, followed by a
consideration of ancestral rites and worship, which have formed an
inseparable part of Korean mortuary customs since premodern times.
Chapters address the need to appease the dead both in shamanic and
Confucians contexts. The final section of the book examines the
treatment of the dead and how the state of death has been
perceived. Ghost stories provide important insight into how death
was interpreted by common people in the Koryo and Choson
(1392–1910) while nonconformist narratives of death such as the
seventeenth-century romantic novel Kuunmong point to a clear
conflict between Buddhist thought and practice and official
Neo-Confucian doctrine. Keeping with unendorsed views on death, the
final chapter explores how death and the afterlife were understood
by early Korean Catholics of the eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries. Death, Mourning, and the Afterlife in Korea fills a
significant gap in studies on Korean society and culture as well as
on East Asian mortuary practices. By approaching its topic from a
variety of disciplines and extending its historical reach to cover
both premodern and modern Korea, it is an important resource for
scholars and students in a variety of fields.
Death and the activities and beliefs surrounding it can teach us
much about the ideals and cultures of the living. While
biologically death is an end to physical life, this break is not
quite so apparent in its mental and spiritual aspects. Indeed, the
influence of the dead over the living is sometimes much greater
than before death. This volume takes a multidisciplinary approach
in an effort to provide a fuller understanding of both historic and
contemporary practices linked with death in Korea. Contributors
from Korea and the West incorporate the approaches of archaeology,
history, literature, religion, and anthropology in addressing a
number of topics organized around issues of the body, disposal of
remains, ancestor worship and rites, and the afterlife. The first
two chapters explore the ways in which bodies of the dying and the
dead were dealt with from the Greater Silla Kingdom (668-935) to
the mid-twentieth century. Grave construction and goods,
cemeteries, and memorial monuments in the Koryo? (918-1392) and the
twentieth century are then discussed, followed by a consideration
of ancestral rites and worship, which have formed an inseparable
part of Korean mortuary customs since premodern times. The final
section of the book examines the treatment of the dead and how the
state of death has been perceived. Death, Mourning, and the
Afterlife in Korea fills a significant gap in studies on Korean
society and culture as well as on East Asian mortuary practices. By
approaching its topic from a variety of disciplines and extending
its historical reach to cover both premodern and modern Korea, it
is an important resource for scholars and students in a variety of
fields.
Arranged around a set of provocative themes, the essays in this
volume engage in the discussion from various critical perspectives
on Korean geography. Part One, ""Geographies of the (Colonial)
City,"" focuses on Seoul during the Japanese colonial occupation
from 1910-1945 and the lasting impact of that period on the
construction of specific places in Seoul. In Part Two,
""Geographies of the (Imagined) Village,"" the authors delve into
the implications for the conceptions of the village of recent
economic and industrial development. In this context, they examine
both constructed space, such as the Korean Folk Village, and rural
villages that were physically transformed through the processes of
rapid modernization.The essays in ""Geographies of Religion"" (Part
Three) reveal how religious sites are historically and
environmentally contested as well as the high degree of mobility
exhibited by sites themselves. Similarly, places that exist at the
margins are powerful loci for the negotiation of identity and
aspects of cultural ideology. The final section, ""Geographies of
the Margin,"" focuses on places that exist at the margins of Korean
society.
This volume offers a fresh, multifaceted exploration of women and
Confucianism in mid- to late-Chosoan Korea (mid-sixteenth to early
twentieth century). Using primary sources and perspectives from
social history, intellectual history, literature, and political
thought, contributors challenge unitary views of Confucianism as a
system of thought, of women as a group, and of the relationship
between the two.
Much earlier scholarship has focused on how women were oppressed
under the strict patriarchal systems that emerged as Confucianism
became the dominant social ideology during the Chosoan dynasty
(1392 1910). Contributors to this volume bring to light the varied
ways that diverse women actually lived during this era, from elite
yangban women to women who were enslaved. Women are shown to have
used various strategies to seek status, economic rights, and more
comfortable spaces, with some women even emerging as Confucian
intellectuals and exemplars."
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