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Category: Late Chosŏn

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‘An Elementary Reader for Citizens’ (國民小學讀本)

Posted on January 13, 2006 by Owen / 16 Comments

At my own blog I’ve been writing a series of posts about some interesting old Korean books I’ve come across in the library of the School of Oriental and African...

Economic/Korea/Labor/Late Chosŏn

Wages

Posted on January 2, 2006 by Owen / 2 Comments

Just a nugget of information I thought I might throw out to our readers, all comments or reflections are welcome: It seems that unskilled wage labourers in late...

bibliography/Books and Articles/General/Korea/Late Chosŏn/Web Sites

Seasonal treat for Koreanists

Posted on December 26, 2005 by Owen / 11 Comments

It has been brought to my attention that historians of premodern Korea have a very special Christmas treat in the form of the annals of the Chosŏn Dynasty (Chos...

Books and Articles/Economic/English/Korea/Late Chosŏn

Demands of the Tonghak Rebels

Posted on December 15, 2005 by K. M. Lawson / 4 Comments

Some fifteen years ago in a Journal of Korean Studies article entitled “The Conservative Character of the 1894 Tonghak Peasant Uprising” Lew Young I...

Books and Articles/English/Korea/Late Chosŏn

Western Perceptions of Koreans: Part V – The Korean Mind and other Characteristics

Posted on November 16, 2005 by K. M. Lawson / 3 Comments

Before diving into some descriptions of the Korean mind and personality in the readings considered in this series of postings (Part I begins here), let me make ...

Books and Articles/English/Korea/Late Chosŏn

Western Perceptions of Koreans: Part IV – Women

Posted on November 12, 2005 by K. M. Lawson / 5 Comments

As one might expect, descriptions of Korean women in the writings by Western visitors that I have looked at tend to be completely dominated by the theme of pity...

bibliography/General/Korea/Late Chosŏn/Libraries/Web Sites

Online resources for Chosŏn history: Government annals

Posted on November 11, 2005 by Owen / 3 Comments

Following the lead of Konrad I thought I might start off my posts with something about finding Korean history resources online. It is now actually possible to d...

Books and Articles/English/Korea/Late Chosŏn

Early Western Perceptions of Koreans: Part III – Of Labor and Laziness

Posted on November 8, 2005 by K. M. Lawson / 7 Comments

Western visitors to late 19th century and colonial Korea often write about the Korean worker’s laziness, or at least a profound indifference to their labo...

Books and Articles/Cultural/Korea/Late Chosŏn

Early Western Perceptions of Koreans: Part II – Education and the Yangban Class

Posted on November 7, 2005 by K. M. Lawson / 5 Comments

Western visitors to Korea are struck by the idleness and corruption of the Yangban class. While many of them live in considerable poverty at this point, and the...

Books and Articles/Colonial/English/Korea/Korea-Japan/Late Chosŏn/US-Korea

Early Western Perceptions of Koreans: Part I – Introduction

Posted on November 6, 2005 by K. M. Lawson / 6 Comments

What did visitors to late Chosŏn and colonial Korea have to say about the people and society they found there? When seen through the lens of imperialism and all...

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