Epistolary Korea : letters in the communicative space of the Chosŏn, 1392-1910

2008018695
GBA905972
014883345
(OCoLC)ocn226304820
(NNC)7166087
edited by JaHyun Kim Haboush.
24 cm.
Translated from the Korean.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [419]-432) and index.
Introduction. The Epistolary Genre and the Scriptural Economy of the Chosen -- I. Public Letters -- 1. Royal Edicts: Constructing an Ethnopolitical Community / JaHyun Kim Haboush -- 2. Female Rulers: Queen Dowagers' Edicts and Letters / JaHyun Kim Haboush -- 3. Memorials to the Throne / John Duncan and JaHyun Kim Haboush -- 4. Joint Memorials: Scholars' Channel of Communication to the Throne / Hwisang Cho -- 5. Individual Petitions: Petitions by Women in the Choson / Jisoo Kim -- 6. Petitions by a Collective Body: A Petition by the Residents of the Chip'yong District / JaHyun Kim Haboush -- 7. Letters of Appeal / Sun Joo Kim -- 8. Circular Letters in Chason Society: Writing to Publicize Opinions / Hwisang Cho -- 9. Open Letters: Patriotic Exhortations from the Imjin War / JaHyun Kim Haboush -- 10. Manifestos During the Hong Kyongnae Rebellion of 1812 / Sun Joo Kim -- 11. Chon Pongjun's 1894 Tonghak Declaration / George Kallander -- 12. Letters to the Editor: Women, Newspapers, and the Public Sphere in Turn-of-the-Century Korea / Se-Mi Oh -- II. Letters to Colleagues and Friends -- 13. Correspondence Between Scholars: Political Letters / JaHyun Kim Haboush -- 14. Scholarly Letters / Marion Eggert -- 15. Friendship Between Men / Marion Eggert -- 16. Friendship Between Women: One Man's Consorts / JaHyun Kim Haboush -- 17. Friendship with Foreigners / Marion Eggert -- III. Social Letters -- 18. Letters of Greeting / JaHyun Kim Haboush -- 19. Letters on Everyday Life / Sun Joo Kim -- 20. Male Concubinage: Notes on Late Choson Homosexuality by an American Naval Attache / Carter J. Eckert -- IV. Family Letters -- 21. Letters Between Spouses / JaHyun Kim Haboush -- 22. Personal Royal Letters: Correspondence Between Monarchs and Their Children / Eleanor S. Hyun -- 23. The Sunch'on Kims: Vignettes of Family Life Through Letters / JaHyun Kim Haboush -- 24. Fathers' Letters Concerning Their Children's Education / Sun Joo Kim -- 25. Mothers' Letters of Instruction to Their Children / JaHyun Kim Haboush -- 26. Yi Ponghwan's Letters to His Mother During His Trip to Japan / JaHyun Kim Haboush -- 27. Daughters' Letters to Members of Their Natal Families / JaHyun Kim Haboush -- V. Letters Written Away from Home -- 28. Letters Written in Korean by Exiles JaHyun Kim Haboush -- 29. A Letter Written in Literary Chinese by Chong Yagyong While in Exile / Bonnie S. Kim -- 30. Letters by Prisoners of the Imjin War / JaHyun Kim Haboush -- 31. Letters Sent Home by Royal Hostages / JaHyun Kim Haboush -- VI. Deathbed Letters -- 32. A Letter Written Before Execution: A Condemned Man's Last Thoughts to His Children / JaHyun Kim Haboush -- 33. Letters of the Catholic Martyrs / JaHyun Kim Haboush -- 34. Madam Yi's Farewell Letter to Her Son / Jungwon Kim -- 35. Daughters' Letters of Farewell to Their Fathers / Jungwon Kim -- VII. Letters to the Dead -- 36. A Wife's Letter to Her Deceased Husband / Sun Joo Kim -- 37. Kwon Sangil's Farewell to His Deceased Wife / Martina Deuchler -- 38. Letters to Deceased Children / JaHyun Kim Haboush -- VIII. Fictional Letters -- 39. Love Letters in The Tale of Unyong / Michael J. Pettid.