Everlasting Flower
A History of Korea
1st Edition
Published on 30. June 2003
256 pages
978-1-86189-450-2 (ISBN)
Description
A timely history of Korea, a country divided until recently by the last active 'cold war' frontier, yet whose common historical and cultural links remain strong
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Content
- Everlasting Flower Cover
- Imprint Page
- Contents
- Map: Early Kingdoms on the Korean Peninsula
- Map: Modern Korea
- Chronology of Korean History
- Introduction
- Part I The Creation of State Identity
- 1 From Earliest Times to AD 668: Cultural Patterns in Flux
- 2 Unified Silla, AD 668-936: The Building of Confidence
- 3 Koryo, 918-1392: The Struggle for Independence
- 4 Early to Mid-Choson, 1392- 1800: The Search for an Acceptable Orthodoxy
- Part II A Century of Insecurity
- 5 The Hermit Kingdom, 1800- 64: Tradition at Work
- 6 Incursion, Modernization and Reform, 1864- 1905:Tradition at Bay
- Part III A Century of Suffering
- 7 Culture under Threat, 1905- 45: The Colonial Era
- 8 Partition and War, 1945- 53: Return to Disunity
- 9 Post-War Korea: Tradition and Change
- Sources and Further Reading
- Discography
- Acknowledgements
- Index
