TY - BOOK AU - Kim,Sun Joo AU - Kim,Jungwon TI - Wrongful deaths: selected inquest records from nineteenth-century Korea AV - DS915.15 .K57 2014eb U1 - 951.9/02 23 PY - 2014///] CY - Seattle PB - University of Washington Press KW - Wrongful death KW - Korea KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Sources KW - Court records KW - Courts KW - Law KW - Social aspects KW - Social classes KW - Chos�on dynasty, 1392-1910 KW - Social conditions KW - 1392-1910 KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Map of Nineteenth-Century Korea -- Introduction: Chos�on Korea in Its Last Century -- Case 1: An Adulterous Widower Meets a Violent Death, Yang Hang-ny�on (P'y�ongyang, P'y�ongan Province, 1866) -- Case 2: A Family Activist Confronts a Local Magnate, Ms. Pak (Yongin, Ky�onggi Province, Late Eighteenth Century) -- Case 3: A Defiant Slave Challenges His Master with Death, Yi Pong-dol (Anoi, Ky�ongsang Province, 1842) -- Case 4: Two Widows Fight, Madam Chang and Ms. On (Yech'�on, Ky�ongsang Province, 1842) -- Case 5: A Heartless Wet Nurse Abuses an Infant, Mun Chong-ji (Chunghwa, P'y�ongan Province, 1866) -- Case 6: A Widower Seeks Private Settlement, Ms. Ch�ong (Y�ongch��on, Ky�ongsang 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, Kangw�on Province, 1899) -- Glossary N2 - "This collection presents and analyzes inquest records that tell the stories of ordinary Korean people under the Chos�on 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 societal and legal cultures of early modern Korea. Sun Joo Kim is the Harvard-Yenching Professor of Korean History at Harvard University. Jungwon Kim is assistant professor of Korean history at Columbia University; 'This book provides an extremely rare view into social interactions among people of quite different classes in Chos�on Korea. Points of interest abound'--Robert E. Hegel, Washington University, St. Louis; 'This is an important contribution that significantly advances our knowledge of nineteenth-century Korean legal history. The translated cases shine by being able to introduce daily struggles of non-elites and illustrate the complex dynamics of the judiciary system during the last century of the Chos�on dynasty'--Jisoo Kim, George Washington University"-- UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10839453 ER -