Contributors to this book examine the culture, identity, and regional distinctiveness of the northern region of Korea and its people through the use of storytelling, linguistic analysis, journal entries from missionaries and travelers, and other unconventional primary sources.
Maps, Figures, and Tables
Acknowledgments
Editor’s Note
Introduction: Thinking Through Region Sun Joo Kim
1. Residence and Foreign Relation in the Peninsular Northeast
During the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries / Kenneth R.
Robinson
2. Choson-Qing Relations and the Society of P’yongan Province
During the Late Choson Period / Kwon Naehyun
3. Regional Identities of Northern Literati: A Comparative Study of
P’yongan and Hamgyong Provinces / Jan Yoo-Seung
4. The Shadow of Anonymity: The Depiction of Northerners in
Eighteenth-Century “Hearsay Accounts” (kimun) / Jung Min
5. P’yongan Dialect and Regional Identity in Choson Korea / Paek
Doo-Hyeon
6. Dialect, Orthography, and Regional Identity: P’yongan
Christians, Korean Spelling Reform, and Orthographic Fundamentalism
/ Ross King
7. From Periphery to a Transnational Frontier: Popular Movements in
the Northwestern Provinces, 1896-1904 / Yumi Moon
8. Subversive Narratives: Hwang Sunwon’s P’yongan Stories / Bruce
Fulton
9. The Missionary Presence in Northern Korea before WWII: Human
Investment, Social Significance, and Historical Legacy / Donald N.
Clark
10. The Northern Region of Korea as Portrayed in Russian Sources,
1860s-1913 / German King and Ross King
11. Images of the North in Occupied Korea, 1905-1945 / Mark E.
Caprio
Glossary
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
Maps, Figures, and Tables
MAPS
Korea at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
2.1 Road Used by Choson Envoys to Visit the Qing
11.1 Birth Rates
11.2 Literacy Rates
FIGURES
2.1 Illustration of Choson Envoy to Qing
5.1 Dialect and Regional Identity
9.1 Missionary Compound in P’yongyang
TABLES
2.1 Qing Embassies to Choson
2.2 Choson Embassy’s Sojourn in Days by Region
2.3 Cultivated Land and Land Tax Revenues by Province in 1807 –
2.4 Silver Presented to Qing Envoys and Interpreters in the Late
Eighteenth Century by Province, in Yang
2.5 Central and Provincial Government Silver Loans to Choson
Embassies, in Yang
2.6 Shenyang P’alp’o Trade Privileges by Province, in Number of
P’alp’o Granted
2.7 Products Traded at the Chunggang Market, by Province
5.1 Editions of the Iryun haengsilto
5.2 Word Comparison Among Three Editions
5.3 Comparison Between the Yongyong and Haeyong Editions
5.4 Editions of the Nogoltae
5.5 Editions of the Yombul pogwonmun
5.6 Word Comparison Between the Tonghwa Temple and Yongmun Temple
Editions
5.7 Editions of the Kyongminp’yon
6.1 Contemporary Standard Korea and P’yongan Dialects
9.1 Korean Christian Mission Statistics (as of June 30) 1908
Sun Joo Kim is a professor of Korean history at Harvard University. She is the author of Marginality and Subversion in Korea. The other contributors are Mark E. Caprio, Donald N. Clark, Bruce Fulton, Jang Yoo-seung, Jung Min, German Kim, Ross King, Kwon Naehyun, Yumi Moon, Paek Doo-Hyeon, and Kenneth R. Robinson.
"Sheds light on many aspects of Korean history and culture that
have long been ignored. . . . opens doors to further scholarship
not only on northern Korean but also on other regions . . . a
path-breaking addition to the field of Korean studies."
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