History, Language and Culture in Korea

Preface * 9 Contributors * 11 Section 1 * History * 13 Alexander V Solovyov * Biographies in Samguk Sagi. Literature vs History? * 15 Grace E Koh * History or Literature? A study on the subject genre of the Samguk yusa * 21 Hugh Kang * The historiography of the King Kwanggaet'o Stele * 28 Mi-Hee Jeon * The local people's status system and the Bone-Rank (kolp'um) system in the United Silla * 43 Song-mu LEE * On the family lineage and the School of Yi Yik (1681-1763 ), a Silhak Scholar * 52 JaHyun Kim Haboush * 'Dream Journey: Post-war literary discourse in 17th century Korea' * 65 Victoria Pak * Kyuwon Sahwa as a source for the study of Korean history * 85 Jin-Mieung Li (Jin-Myong Yi) * The discovery of Korea by Western navigators from 1787 to 1859 and its consequences on the geographical names, 'Sea of Japan' for 'East Sea', 'Liancourt Rocks' for 'Tok-do' * 93 Anders Karlsson * Chonggamnok and the ideology of the Hong Kyongnae Rebellion * 104 Michael Finch * A Korean view of Choson's international position on the eve of the Sino-Japanese War in 1894: A study on Min Yong-hwan's policy essay, Ch'onilch'aek (One policy out of a thousand) * 116 Serguei O Kourbanov * Elements of bourgeois-democratic revolution in the 1919 independence movement in Korea * 123 Donald N Clark * Jim Hausman, Soldier of Freedom * 130 Section 2 * Religion * 155 JOrg Plassen * Denial and affirmation in Wonhyo's exegesis * 157 Yannick Bruneton * Le traitement des moines nommes dans le Koryosa * 169 Sem Vermeersch * The relation between Geomancy and Buddhism in Koryo: pibo sasang reconsidered * 186 Tonino Puggioni * A Koryo Court Lady in 14th century Yuan China--Empress Ki and her role in the promotion of Buddhism * 199 Tong-shin Nam * A study on the Buddhist Tendencies in the late Choson dynasty and the formation of 'Sang-bob-myol-ui-gyong' * 216 Mark Setton * Is there a Post-Neo-Confucianism? Chong Yagyong, Ito Jinsai, and the unravelling of li-ch'i metaphysics * 226 Snjezana Zoric * The ecotopic thinking and intercultural turn in Korean philosophy * 239 Section 3 * Linguistics and Literature * 261 Jaemog Song * A comparative study of Korean and Mongolian conjugational suffixes * 263 L A Tyan * A comparative instrumental analysis of the phonetic characteristics of the vowels in the Yukchin dialect of Soviet Korean (Kore Mar) * 278 Ho-min Sohn * Evolvement of interactive sentence enders in Korean * 282 Joonseo Lim * Chosa saengnyak kwa kujo kisul (Particle deletion and syntactic description) * 295 Romuald Huszcza * Some typological aspects of the Korean predicative inflection * 312 Lyudmila Kim * Study of linguistic peculiarities of the Primorskii Krai toponyms in the Far East * 323 Hyang-keun Song * A method of teaching Korean through language learning in tandem * 329 Daehaeng Kim * On the relation of Tears and Laughter in Korean literature * 337 Yoon-shik Kim * An essay on T'ongil munhaksarul wihan shiron (Unified Literary History) * 343 Halina Ogarek-Czoj * Traumatic experiences of the Korean War and the Vietnam War as reflected in Ahn Jung-Hyo's novels, 'Silver Stallion' and 'White Badge' * 350 Ji-moon Suh * A land covered with sores: Poets of the Korean War weeping over their fatherland * 360 Helga Picht * The trauma of Korean War, reflected in North and South Korean Literature (Comparison of Ri Ki-yong's 'Soil' and Pak Kyong-ni's 'Market and War') * 371 Section 4 * Anthropology and Modern Korea * 385 Antonetta Lucia Bruno: Variety of registers in KUT: The relationship of the formal and informal parts of ritual as seen in the use of language * 387 Eunsil Yim * La construction de l'identite des Coreens au Kazakhstan * 394 Yuri Nakagawa * The structural change of the jip in a Korean village * 400 Antti LeppAnen * Neighbourhood businesses and the neighbourhood moral economy: Can the neighbourhood business afford to be moral, or can they afford to be capitalist? * 407 Sea Ling Cheng * Helping 'Others': Korean activists' response to the trafficking of foreign 'entertainers' into US military camp towns in Korea * 416 Judith Cherry * The causes of the 1997 crisis: The Korean perspective * 426