Wrongful deaths : selected inquest records from nineteenth-century Korea

Resource Information

The work Wrongful deaths : selected inquest records from nineteenth-century Korea represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Wrongful deaths : selected inquest records from nineteenth-century Korea

Title remainder

selected inquest records from nineteenth-century Korea

Statement of responsibility

compiled and translated by Sun Joo Kim and Jungwon Kim

Creator

• Kim, Sun Joo, 1962-
• Kim, Sun Joo, 1962-

Contributor

• Kim, Jungwon

Subject

• Korea -- History -- Chosŏn dynasty, 1392-1910 -- Sources
• Korea -- Social conditions -- 1392-1910 -- Sources
• Law -- Social aspects -- Korea -- History -- 19th century -- Sources
• Social classes -- Korea -- History -- 19th century -- Sources
• Wrongful death -- Korea -- History -- 19th century -- Sources
• Court records -- Korea
• Courts -- Korea -- History -- 19th century -- Sources

Genre

• Sources

Language

eng

Summary

"This collection presents and analyzes inquest records that tell the stories of ordinary Korean people under the Chosŏn 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 Chosŏn 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 Chosŏn dynasty'--Jisoo Kim, George Washington University"--

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

CaPaEBR

Dewey number

951.9/02

Illustrations

maps

Index

index present

LC call number

DS915.15

LC item number

.K57 2014eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Korean studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies