A History of Korea

by Professor Kyung Moon Hwang

  Mintz, Grafton (ed.), Ha, Tae-Hung (tr.). Samguk Yusa: Legends and History of the Three Kingdoms of Ancient Korea. Seoul: Silla Pagoda, 2008.

  McBride, Richard D., II. “Pak Ch’anghwa and the Hwarang segi Manuscripts.” Journal of Korean Studies 13:1 (Fall 2008): 57–88.

  Nha, Il-Seong. “Silla’s Cheomseongdae.” Korea Journal 41:4 (Winter 2001): 269–81.

  Park, Hyun-Sook. “Baekje’s Relationship with Japan in the 6th Century.” International Journal of Korean History 11 (December 2007): 97–115.

  3 THE UNIFIED SILLA KINGDOM

  Ennin. Diary: The Record of a Pilgrimage to China in Search of the Law. Edwin O. Reischauer, tr. New York: Ronald Press Co., 1955.

  McBride, Richard D., II. Domesticating the Dharma: Buddhist Cults and the Hwaom Synthesis in Silla Korea. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2007.

  Reischauer, Edwin O. Ennin’s Travels in Tang China. New York: Ronald Press Co., 1955.

  Wnhyo. Cultivating Original Enlightenment: Wohnyo’s Exposition of the Vajrasamadhi-Sutra (Kumgang Sammaegyong Non). Robert E. Buswell Jr., tr. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2007.

  4 FOUNDING OF THE KORY DYNASTY

  Duncan, John. “Kogury in Kory and Chosn Historical Memory.” Journal of Inner and East Asian Studies 1 (2004).

  Ledyard, Gari. “Yin and Yang in the China-Manchuria-Korea Triangle.” In Morris Rossabi, ed. China Among Equals: The Middle Kingdom and Its Neighbors, 10th–14th Centuries. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983.

  Ro, Myoung-ho. “Perception and Policy of the Kory Ruling Class toward the People of Parhae.” Seoul Journal of Korean Studies 13 (2000): 125–42.

  Rogers, Michael C. “National Consciousness in Medieval Korea: The Impact of Liao and Chin on Kory.” In Morris Rossabi (ed.). China Among Equals: The Middle Kingdom and Its Neighbors, 10th–14th Centuries. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983.

  5 RELIGION AND REGIONALISM IN THE KORY ORDER

  Breuker, Remco E. “Kory as an Independent Realm: The Emperor’s Clothes?” Korean Studies 27 (2004): 48–84.

  Chinul. The Korean Approach to Zen: The Collected Works of Chinul. Robert E. Buswell, tr. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1983.

  Lancaster, Lewis R., Kikun Suh, and Chai-shin Yu (eds). Buddhism in Kory: A Royal Religion. Berkeley, CA: Institute of East Asian Studies, 1996.

  Shultz, Edward J. “An Introduction to the Samguk Sagi.” Korean Studies 28 (2005): 1–13.

  Vermeersch, Sem. The Power of the Buddhas: The Politics of Buddhism during the Kory Dynasty (918–1392). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2008.

  6 THE MONGOL OVERLORD PERIOD

  Shultz, Edward J. Generals and Scholars: Military Rule in Medieval Korea. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2000.

  Yun, Peter I. “Popularization of Mongol Language and Culture in the Late Koryo Period.” International Journal of Korean History 10 (December 2006): 25–41.

  Robinson, David M. Empire’s Twilight: Northeast Asia under the Mongols. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Asia Center, 2009.

  7 KORY-CHOSN TRANSITION

  Ch’oe, Yong-ho. The Civil Examinations and the Social Structure in Early Yi Dynasty Korea, 1392–1600. Seoul: Korean Research Center, 1987.

  Duncan, John B. The Origins of the Chosn Dynasty. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2000.

  Wagner, Edward W. The Literati Purges: Political Conflict in Early Yi Korea. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1974.

  de Bary, Wm. Theodore, and JaHyun Kim Haboush (eds). The Rise of Neo-Confucianism in Korea. New York: Columbia University Press, 1986.

  8 CONFUCIANISM AND THE FAMILY IN THE EARLY CHOSN DYNASTY

  Chung, Edward Y. J. The Korean Neo-Confucianism of Yi T’oegye and Yi Yulgok: A Reappraisal of the “Four-Seven Thesis” and Its Practical Implications for Self-Cultivation. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1995.

  Deuchler, Martina. The Confucian Transformation of Korea: A Study of Society and Ideology. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, Council on East Asian Studies, 1992.

  Lee, Hai-soon. The Poetic World of Classic Korean Women Writers. Won-Jae Hur, tr. Seoul: Ewha Womans University Press, 2005.

  Ro, Young-chan. The Korean Neo-Confucianism of Yi Yulgok. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1989.

  Yi Hwang. To Become a Sage: The Ten Diagrams on Sage Learning. Michael C. Kalton, tr. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988.

  9 THE GREAT INVASIONS, 1592–1636

  Ha, Tae-hung (tr.), and Sohn Pow-key (ed.). Imjin Changch’o: Admiral Yi Sun-sin’s Memorials to Court. Seoul: Yonsei University Press, 1981.

  Ledyard, Gari. “Confucianism and War: The Korean Security Crisis of 1598.” The Journal of Korean Studies 6 (1988–89): 81–119.

  Lewis, James B. Frontier Contact between Chosn Korea and Tokugawa Japan. London: Routledge Curzon, 2003.

  Swope, Kenneth M. A Dragon’s Head and a Serpent’s Tail: Ming China and the First Great East Asian War, 1592–1598. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2009.

  Yu Sng-nyong. The Book of Corrections: Reflections on the National Crisis During the Japanese Invasion of Korea, 1592–1598. Choi Byonghyon, tr. Berkeley, CA: Institute of East Asian Studies, 2002.

  10 IDEOLOGY, FAMILY, AND NATIONHOOD IN THE MID-CHOSN ERA

  Chi, Sung-jong. “The Study of Social Status Groups in the Chosn Period.” The Review of Korean Studies 4:2 (December 2001): 243–63.

  Duncan, John B. “Proto-nationalism in Premodern Korea.” In Sang-Oak Lee and Duk-Soo Park (eds). Perspectives on Korea. Sydney: Wild Peony, 1998.

  Kim Haboush, Jahyun and Martina Deuchler (eds). Culture and the State in Late Chosn Korea. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 1999.

  Park, Chan E. “Sukchong’s Triangle: The Politics of Passion.” Korean Studies 19 (1995): 83–103.

  Park, Eugene Y. Between Dreams and Reality: The Military Examination in Late Chosn Korea, 1600–1894. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2007.

  Peterson, Mark. Korean Adoption and Inheritance: Case Studies in the Creation of a Classic Confucian Society. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University East Asian Program, 1996.

  Setton, Mark. “Factional Politics and Philosophical Development in the Late Chosn.” Journal of Korean Studies 8 (1992): 37–79.

  Song, Ki-joong. The Study of Foreign Languages in the Chosn Dynasty. Seoul: Jimoondang, 2000.

  11 INTELLECTUAL OPENING IN THE LATE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

  Jun, Seong Ho, James B. Lewis, and Kang Han-Rog. “Korean Expansion and Decline from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century: A View Suggested by Adam Smith.” Journal of Economic History 68:1 (March 2008): 244–82.

  Haboush, JaHyun Kim. The Confucian Kingship in Korea: Yngjo and the Politics of Sagacity. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001.

  Haboush, JaHyun Kim (ed. and tr.). The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong: The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown Princess of Eighteenth-Century Korea. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.

  Ledyard, Gari. “Hong Taeyong and His Peking Memoir.” Korean Studies 6 (1982): 63–103.

  Palais, James. Confucian Statecraft and Korean Institutions: Yu Hyngwn and the Late Chosn Dynasty. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1996.

  12 POPULAR CULTURE IN THE LATE CHOSN ERA

  Haboush, JaHyun Kim. “Rescoring the Universal in a Korean Mode: Eighteenth-Century Korean Culture.” In Hongnam Kim (ed.). Korean Arts of the Eighteenth Century: Splendor and Simplicity. New York: The Asia Society Galleries, 1993.

  Jungmann, Burglind. Painters as Envoys: Korean Inspiration in Eighteenth-Century Japanese Nanga. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004.

  Pettid, Michael J. “Sexual Identity in Chosn Period Literature: Humorous Accounts of Forbidden Passion.” The Review of Korean Studies 4:1 (June 2001): 61–85.

  Pihl, Marshall R. The Korean Singer of Tales. Cambridge, MA: Council on East Asian Studies, 1994.

  Shima, Mutsuhiko. “In Quest of Social Recognition: A Retrospective View on th
e Development of Korean Lineage Organization.” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 50:1 (June 1990): 87–129.

  13 NINETEENTH-CENTURY UNREST

  Chung, Chai-Sik. A Korean Confucian Encounter with the Modern World: Yi Hang-No and the West. Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, 1995.

  Deuchler, Martina. Confucian Gentlemen and Barbarian Envoys: The Opening of Korea, 1875–1885. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1977.

  Karlsson, Anders. “Challenging the Dynasty: Popular Protest, Chnggamnok and the Ideology of the Hong Kyngnae Rebellion.” International Journal of Korean History 2 (2001): 255–77.

  Kim, Sun Joo. Marginality and Subversion in Korea: The Hong Kyongnae Rebellion of 1812. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2007.

  Palais, James B. Politics and Policy in Traditional Korea. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1991.

  14 1894, A FATEFUL YEAR

  Eckert, Carter. “Korea’s Transition to Modernity: A Will to Greatness.” In Merle Goldman and Andrew Gordon (eds). Historical Perspectives on Contemporary East Asia, pp. 119–54. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000.

  Hwang, Kyung Moon. Beyond Birth: Social Status in the Emergence of Modern Korea. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Asia Center, 2004.

  Lew, Young Ick. “The Conservative Character of the 1894 Tonghak Peasant Uprising: A Reappraisal with Emphasis on Chn Pong-jun’s Background and Motivation.” The Journal of Korean Studies 7 (1990): 149–80.

  Lew, Young Ick. “Yuan Shih-kai’s Residency and the Korean Enlightenment Movement, 1885–94.” The Journal of Korean Studies 5 (1984): 63–108.

  Mutsu Munemitsu. Kenkenroku: A Diplomatic Record of the Sino-Japanese War, 1894–95. Gordon Mark Berger, ed. and tr. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1982.

  15 THE GREAT KOREAN EMPIRE

  Chandra, Vipan. Imperialism, Resistance, and Reform in Late Nineteenth-Century Korea: Enlightenment and the Independence Club. Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Korean Studies, 1988.

  Hwang, Kyung Moon. “Citizenship, Social Equality and Government Reform: Changes in the Household Registration System in Korea, 1894–1910.” Modern Asian Studies 38:2 (May 2004): 355–88.

  Kim, Christine J. “Politics and Pageantry in Protectorate Korea (1905–10): The Imperial Progresses of Sunjong.” The Journal of Asian Studies 68.3 (2009): 835–59.

  Larsen, Kirk W. Tradition, Treaties, and Trade: Qing Imperialism and Chosn Korea, 1850–1910. Cambridge, MA: Harvard East Asia Center, 2008.

  Schmid, Andre. Korea Between Empires, 1895–1919. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002.

  Son, Min Suh. “Enlightenment and Electrification: The Introduction of Electric Light, Telegraph and Streetcars in Late 19th Century Korea.” In Dong-no Kim, John Duncan, and Do-hyung Kim (eds). Reform and Modernity in the Taehan Empire. Seoul: Jimoondang, 2006.

  16 THE JAPANESE TAKEOVER, 1904–18

  Dudden, Alexis. Japan’s Colonization of Korea: Discourse and Power. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2004.

  Duus, Peter. The Abacus and The Sword: The Japanese Penetration of Korea, 1895-1910. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.

  Finch, Michael. Min Yng-hwan: A Political Biography. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2002.

  Myers, Ramon H. and Mark R. Peattie (eds). The Japanese Colonial Empire, 1895–1945. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1984.

  Rhee, Syngman. The Spirit of Independence: A Primer on Korean Modernization and Reform. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2001.

  Robinson, Michael. “National Identity and the Thought of Sin Ch’aeho: Sadaejui and Chuch’e in History and Politics.” Journal of Korean Studies 5 (1984): 121–42.

  17 THE LONG 1920s

  Kim, Yung-Hee. “Creating New Paradigms of Womanhood in Modern Korean Literature: Na Hye-sk’s ‘Kynghi.’” Korean Studies 26.1 (2002): 1–60.

  Robinson, Michael. Cultural Nationalism in Colonial Korea, 1920–1925. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1988.

  Hyun, Theresa. Writing Women in Korea: Translation and Feminism in the Early Twentieth Century. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2004.

  Kim, Janice. To Live to Work: Factory Women in Colonial Korea, 1910–1945. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2008.

  Wells, Kenneth. New God, New Nation: Protestants and Self-Reconstruction Nationalism in Korea, 1896–1937. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1991.

  Yoo, Theodore Jun. The Politics of Gender in Colonial Korea: Education, Labor, and Health, 1910–1945. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2008.

  18 NATION, CULTURE, AND EVERYDAY LIFE IN THE LATE COLONIAL PERIOD

  Caprio, Mark E. Japanese Assimilation Policies in Colonial Korea, 1910–1945. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2009.

  Ch’ae, Man-Sik. Peace Under Heaven. Chun Kyung-ja, tr. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1993.

  Eckert, Carter J. Offspring of Empire: The Koch’ang Kims and the Colonial Origins of Korean Capitalism, 1876–1945. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1991.

  Kim, Chong-un, and Bruce Fulton (trs). A Ready-Made Life: Early Masters of Korean Fiction. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1998.

  Pai, Hyung Il. Constructing “Korean” Origins: A Critical Review of Archaeology, Historiography, and Racial Myth in Korean State-Formation Theories. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2000.

  Park, Soon-Won. Colonial Industrialization and Labor in Korea: The Onoda Cement Factory. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 1999.

  Park, Sunyoung. On the Eve of the Uprising and Other Stories from Colonial Korea. Ithaca, NY: Cornell East Asia Program, 2010.

  Shin, Gi-Wook Shin and Michael Robinson (eds). Colonial Modernity in Korea. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 1999.

  Yom Sang-seop. Three Generations. Yu Young-nan, tr. Brooklyn, NY: Archipelago Books, 2005.

  19 WARTIME MOBILIZATION, 1938–45

  Allen, Chizuko. “Northeast Asia Centered Around Korea: Ch’oe Namsn’s View of History.” Journal of Asian Studies 49 (1990): 787–806.

  Eckert, Carter J. “Total War, Industrialization, and Social Change in Late Colonial Korea.” In Peter Duus, R. H. Myers, and M. R. Peattie (eds). The Japanese Wartime Empire, 1931–1945. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996.

  Howard, Keith. True Stories of the Korean Comfort Women. London: Cassell, 1995.

  Kang, Hildi. Under the Black Umbrella: Voices from Colonial Korea, 1910–1945. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2001.

  Lee, Ann Sung-hi. Yi Kwang-su and Modern Korean Literature: Mujong. Ithaca, NY: Cornell East Asia Program, 2005.

  Park, Hyun Ok. Two Dreams in One Bed: Empire, Social Life, and the Origins of the North Korean Revolution in Manchuria. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005.

  Palmer, Brandon. “Imperial Japan’s Preparations to Conscript Koreans as Soldiers, 1942–1945.” Korean Studies 31 (2007): 63–78.

  Shin, Gi-Wook. Peasant Protest and Social Change in Colonial Korea. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1996.

  20 THE LIBERATION PERIOD, 1945–50

  Cheong, Sung-hwa. The Politics of Anti-Japanese Sentiment in Korea: Japanese-South Korea Relations Under American Occupation, 1945–1952. New York: Greenwood Press, 1991.

  Clark, Donald N. Living Dangerously in Korea: The Western Experience, 1900–1950. Norwalk, CT: Eastbridge, 2003.

  Cumings, Bruce. The Origins of the Korean War, 2 vols. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981, 1990.

  Oh, Bonnie B. C. (ed.). Korea under the American Military Government, 1945–1948. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2002.

  Weathersby, Kathryn. Soviet Aims in Korea and the Origins of the Korean War, 1945–1950: New Evidence from Russian Archives. Working paper no. 8, Cold War International History Project. Washington DC Woodrow Wilson Center, 1993.

  21 THE KOREAN WAR

  Appleman, Roy A. Disaster in Korea: The Chinese Confront MacArthur. College Station, TX: Texas A &
M University Press, 1989.

  Bateman, Robert L. No Gun Ri: A Military History of the Korean War Incident. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2002.

  Halberstam, David. The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War. New York: Hyperion, 2007.

  Jin, Jingyi. “A Historical Review of the Return to Korea of Korean Soldiers in the Chinese Army.” Social Sciences in China 27:4 (Winter 2006): 72–85.

  Kim, Hak-joon. “The Korean War and China: The Sino-North Korean Relations Before the Chinese Intervention in the Korean War.” Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities 59 (June 1984): 1–90.

  Lee, Chae-Jin (ed). The Korean War: 40-Year Perspectives. Claremont, CA: The Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies, 1991.

  Stueck, William. Rethinking the Korean War: A New Diplomatic and Strategic History. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002.

  Tucker, Spencer C. The Encyclopedia of the Korean War, 3 vols. New York: ABC-CLIO, 2010.

  22 EARLY NORTH KOREA

  Armstrong, Charles K. The North Korean Revolution, 1945–1950. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2003.

  Cathcart, Adam, and Charles Kraus. “Peripheral Influence: The Sinuiju Student Incident of 1945 and the Impact of Soviet Occupation in North Korea.” The Journal of Korean Studies 13:1 (Fall 2008): 1–28.

  David-West, Alzo. “Marxism, Stalinism, and the Juche Speech of 1955: On the Theoretical De-Stalinization of North Korea.” The Review of Korean Studies 10:3 (September 2007): 127–52.

  Kim, Gwang-Oon. “The Making of the North Korean State.” The Journal of Korean Studies 12:1 (Fall 2007): 15–42.

  Lankov, Andrei N. Crisis in North Korea: The Failure of De-Stalinization, 1956. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2004.

  Lankov, Andrei N. From Stalin to Kim Il Sung: The Formation of North Korea, 1945–1960. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002.

  Myers, Brian R. Han Srya and North Korean Literature: The Failure of Socialist Realism in the DPRK. Ithaca, NY: Cornell East Asia Series, 1994.

  Suh, Dae-Sook. Kim Il Sung: The North Korean Leader. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995.