Wrongful deaths [electronic resource] : selected inquest records from nineteenth-century Korea / compiled and translated by Sun Joo Kim and Jungwon Kim.
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TextSeries: Korean studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies | UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2014. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm.)ISBN: - 9780295804965
- 0295804963
- Korea -- Social conditions -- 1392-1910 -- Sources
- Korea -- History -- Chosŏn dynasty, 1392-1910 -- Sources
- HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century
- HISTORY / Asia / Korea
- Social classes -- Korea -- History -- 19th century -- Sources
- Law -- Social aspects -- Korea -- History -- 19th century -- Sources
- Courts -- Korea -- History -- 19th century -- Sources
- Court records -- Korea
- Wrongful death -- Korea -- History -- 19th century -- Sources
- 951.9/02 23
- DS915.15 .K57 2014
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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