Wrongful deaths : selected inquest records from nineteenth-century Korea
- Responsibility
- compiled and translated by Sun Joo Kim and Jungwon Kim.
- Publication
- Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2014]
- Copyright notice
- ©2014
- Physical description
- 1 online resource (270 pages) : map
- Series
- Korean studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies.
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Creators/Contributors
- Author/Creator
- Kim, Sun Joo, 1962-
- Contributor
- Kim, Jungwon.
Contents/Summary
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
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- Acknowledgments Translators' Notes Map of Nineteenth-century Korea Introduction Choson Korea in Its Last Century Case 1 An Adulterous Widower Meets a Violent DeathYang Hang-nyon (P'yongyang, P'yongan Province, 1866) Case 2 A Family Activist Confronts a Local MagnateMs. Pak (Yongin, Kyonggi Province, Late Eighteenth Century) Case 3 A Defiant Slave Challenges His Master with DeathYi Pong-dol (Anui, Kyongsang Province, 1842) Case 4 Two Widows FightMadam Chang and Ms. Un (Yech'on, Kyongsang Province, 1842) Case 5 A Heartless Wet Nurse Abuses an InfantMun Chong-ji (Chunghwa, P'yongan Province, 1866) Case 6 A Widower Seeks Private SettlementMs. Chong (Yongch'on, Kyongsang Province, 1889) Case 7 Adultery Leads to MurderMs. Paek (Anak, Hwanghae Province, 1897) Case 8 An Illegal Burial Begets a Son but Kills a RelativeKim Kap-san (Hoeyang, Kangwon Province, 1899) Notes Glossary Bibliography Index.
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- Publisher's summary
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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.
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Subjects
- Subjects
- Wrongful death > Korea > History > 19th century > Sources.
- Court records > Korea.
- Courts > Korea > History > 19th century > Sources.
- Law > Social aspects > Korea > History > 19th century > Sources.
- Social classes > Korea > History > 19th century > Sources.
- Korea > History > Chosŏn dynasty, 1392-1910 > Sources.
- Korea > Social conditions > 1392-1910 > Sources.
- Décès causé par un acte fautif > Corée > Histoire > 19e siècle > Sources.
- Tribunaux > Dossiers > Corée.
- Tribunaux > Corée > Histoire > 19e siècle > Sources.
- Classes sociales > Corée > Histoire > 19e siècle > Sources.
- Corée > Histoire > 1392-1910 (Époque des Li) > Sources.
- Corée > Conditions sociales > 1392-1910 > Sources.
- HISTORY > Asia > China.
- HISTORY > Asia > Korea.
- Court records.
- Courts.
- Law > Social aspects.
- Social classes.
- Social conditions
- Wrongful death.
- Korea.
- Genre
- History.
- Sources.
Bibliographic information
- Publication date
- 2014
- Copyright date
- 2014
- Series
- Korean studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies
- ISBN
- 9780295804965 (electronic bk.)
- 0295804963 (electronic bk.)
- 9780295993126 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
- 9780295993133
- 029599312X (hardback ; alkaline paper)
- 0295993138
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