Wrongful deaths : : selected inquest records from nineteenth-century Korea / / compiled and translated by Sun Joo Kim and Jungwon Kim.
"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 examinati...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Seattle : : University of Washington Press,, [2014] 2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Korean studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (270 pages) :; map. |
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Table of Contents:
- Map of Nineteenth-Century Korea
- Introduction: Choson Korea in Its Last Century
- Case 1: An Adulterous Widower Meets a Violent Death, Yang Hang-nyon (P'yongyang, P'yongan Province, 1866)
- Case 2: A Family Activist Confronts a Local Magnate, Ms. Pak (Yongin, Kyonggi Province, Late Eighteenth Century)
- Case 3: A Defiant Slave Challenges His Master with Death, Yi Pong-dol (Anoi, Kyongsang Province, 1842)
- Case 4: Two Widows Fight, Madam Chang and Ms. On (Yech'on, Kyongsang Province, 1842)
- Case 5: A Heartless Wet Nurse Abuses an Infant, Mun Chong-ji (Chunghwa, P'yongan Province, 1866)
- Case 6: A Widower Seeks Private Settlement, Ms. Chong (Yongchon, Kyongsang 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, Kangwon Province, 1899)
- Glossary.