Marginality and Subversion in Korea
Subtitle: The Hong Kyongnae Rebellion of 1812 (Korean Studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies)
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: April 15, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780295986845
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: c 1500 to c 1900; Revolutions & coups; c 1800 to c 1900; History; History - General History; History: World; China; Asia - Korea; Revolutionary; Asian studies; history; History / Korea; Asia - General; Political Freedom & Security - General; 1637-1864; Hong Kyæong-nae Incident, 1811-1812; Korea
Description: "In the history of Korea, the nineteenth century is often considered an age of popular rebellions. Scholarly approaches have typically pointed to these rebellions as evidence of the progressive direction of the period, often using the theory of class struggle as an analytical framework. In Marginality and Subversion in Korea, Sun Joo Kim argues that a close reading of the actors and circumstances involved in one of the century's major rebellions, the Hong Kyongnae Rebellion of 1812, leads instead to more complex conclusions." "Drawing from primary sources in Korean, Japanese, and classical Chinese, this book is the most extensive study in the English language of any of the major nineteenth-century rebellions in Korea. Whereas previous research has focused on economic and landlord-tenant tensions, suggesting that class animosity was the dominant feature in the political behavior of peasants, Sun Joo Kim explores the role of embittered local elites in providing vital support in the early stages to spur social change that would benefit these elites as much as the peasant class."--BOOK JACKET.