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Wrongful deaths : selected inquest records from nineteenth-century Korea / compiled and translated by Sun Joo Kim and Jungwon Kim.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kim, Sun Joo, 1962- author.
- Series:
- Korean studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies
- Language:
- English
- Korean
- Subjects (All):
- Wrongful death--History--19th century--Korea--Sources.
- Wrongful death.
- Court records--History--19th century--Korea--Sources.
- Court records.
- Courts--History--Social aspects--19th century--Korea--Sources.
- Courts.
- Law--History--19th century--Korea--Sources.
- Law.
- Social classes--Korea.
- Social classes.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (270 pages) : map.
- 1 online resource (271 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 sociocultural and legal culture of early modern Korea.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780295804965
- 0295804963
- OCLC:
- 874161520
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