cross-posting from e-list, KoreanStudies: University of Oregon e-Asia Digital Library ...the University of Oregon Libraries are embarked on numerous digital projects, one of which is the e-Asia Digital Library located at http://e-asia.uoregon.edu/ ...The materials available for Korea (pre-1950 Korea is identified with South Korea in the indexing) are both ancient and modern, and in a variety of formats, pdf and Microsoft Reader mainly. Particularly valuable are the single articles from rare journals, including the Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society Korea Branch, also a few from The Korean Repository. I have included a short list of about 60 of the titles available in PDF format in my list of Old Books About Korea http://hompi.sogang.ac.kr/anthony/BooksKorea.htm because the U Oregon page does not seem to offer that kind of overview, you need to search by category etc. Brother Anthony at Sogang University / Dankook University / RASKB
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Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2010
Subject: Re: [KS] inquiry of Koryo period during the Yuan period
Mapmakers are not comfortable with ambiguity. Koryo was largely autonomous in its internal affairs, but had been incorporated into the Mongol empire and therefore was under the overall authority of the Yuan dynasty. The reason why Silla and Choson are shown as independent countries on maps and Koryo during the Mongol period is not is that the Mongols exercised much more control over Koryo than Tang ever did over Silla or Ming and Qing ever did over Choson. A careful mapmaker might try to draw the distinction between fully independent countries and countries that are autonomous within a larger empire by using dotted lines for the border between Koryo and the territory the Mongols ruled directly, and solid lines to distinguish the Yuan empire from countries it never drew into its orbit. Did that map do that?
---D Baker, Professor at the University of British Columbia
More details, 20 Dec 2010: G. Ledyard
...No doubt the Mongols probably had the general idea that Korea was theirs. From 1231 to 1259 they struggled without success to overthrow the Koryo state, which, with its governing institutions secure from assault on Kanghwa Island, maintained its weakened hold on the peninsula. In 1259 the Mongols succeeded in forcing the capitulation of King Kojong, and sending his eldest son and heir to Peking, where he was married to a Mongol princess and made to establish his household in Peking. Within two months Kojong had died, and the heir then returned to take the Koryo throne as King Wonjong (r. 1269-1274), while leaving his own son and heir in Peking in his own princely household with HIS brand new Mongol princess-wife.
For almost a hundred years this process repeated itself. The uxorilocal matrimonial institution was a widely used strategy by the Mongols to keep control of conquered territories by keeping the heirs of their various rulers hostage in Peking, where they would grow up speaking both Mongolian and Korean and even assuming Mongol names. But in Korea, on the record, they kept the royal Koryo surname, Wang. As each king died or abdicated, his Mongolized heir and his Mongol queen would replace the preceeding royal couple. This situation continued until 1356, when King Kongmin militarily succeeded in expelling the Mongols from Korea. By that time they were a weak and dying regime.
So during all that time and through all those sucessions, the Koryo dynasty, through the suceeding male heirs to the throne, maintained its existence, and also the laws, institutions, and the Korean-staffed bureaucracy that governed Koryo. For a few decades in the late 1200s the northwestern area of the Korean peninsula had been formally annexed to the Yuan dynasty, but that was discontinued before the century ended. Cheju, earlier declared a direct Mongol holding, was also restored to Koryo around that time. Finally the Hamgyong coastal area was also Mongol territory throughout most the occupation, but those lands were recouped by King Kongmin in 1356. But from 1259 to 1356, the Koryo dynasty existed and governed, and retained the key populated areas of the nation, though with Mongols watching the situation.
Though the Mongols had the capability to seize the whole country, in fact they never did.Even if Khubilai Khan, who after all was Emperor of Yuan dynasty China, had resorted to the Chinese tributary system to maintain a controlled relationsip with the Korean kingdom, that institution would still not have dissolved the Koryo state. For all of its embarrasing elements of superior-to-inferior relationships, its general purpose was to recognize such outlying countries and to relate to them using its power and prestige rather than its military to run them as Chinese colonies, while offering them peaceful access to China's markets and culture. From China's point of view, this offered much more stability than if they had tried to rule the smaller states themselves. And it was certainly cheaper than having to support armies to conquer and repress unhappy neighbors.
Thus Korea, which for the Chinese dynasties of the last thousand years was considered the most important and highest ranking tributary in the system, actually had a practical interest in maintaining this relationship, with Korea remaining a Korean kingdom with a Korean king, governed by Korean laws and a Korean bureaucracy.The relationship of China to Korea was very different than its relationship to some other nearby ethnicities. During the Qing dynasty, for instance, administration of the Korea relationship, and the tributary system in general, was the responsibility of the Board of Rites, while its relationship with many of its ethnic minorities and/or neighbors, such as the Uighurs, Mongols, and Tibetans, was administered by the Lifanyuan, an entirely different institution with different goals.
When one talks with ordinary Chinese people, one finds that they often have the idea that because Korea was a tributary state of China it was also a part of China. The fact that Korea in the dynastic days was a paragon of Chinese culture, Confucian values, and a master of its classical language might explain such impressions. But one wonders if they have not unconsciously assumed that all near neighbors are in the same category. But today China recognizes two Koreas and deals with them in terms of international protocol, while the situation with the Uighurs, Inner Mongolians, and Tibetans is still pretty much a continuation of the Qing dynasty.
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The Korean Heritage Library of the University of Southen California has thousands of Korean films and dramas, thanks to the Korean Collections Consortium of North America grants from the Korea Foundation. To see USC's extensive Korean film collections, please go to the following site, maintained by my colleague, Sun-Yoon Lee: http://libguides.usc.edu/content.php?pid=19365&sid=143425 Recent acquisitions are listed at the top. Collection listings include the categories: > Korean American Videos > North Korean Documentary > North Korean Feature Films > South Korean Documentary > South Korean Feature Films Joy Kim, Curator Korean Heritage Library, East Asian Library University of Southern California Joy Kim, joykim@usc .dotedu --cf. another e-list response to this subject,
http://sites.google.com/site/vsdjklsdbmasas/dhma4x
Postcard Collection. The collection is part of our open-access digital archive called Lafayette College East Asia Image Collections. The Lin Collection consists of 370 Japanese postcards, mostly depicting scenes from 1930s Japan and Taiwan, but with some images of from Korea and China. http://digital.lafayette.edu/collections/eastasia
Q. Studying for history of Korea I run into the battle between Koguryeo and Sui dinasty's China of 612 A.D. A. Sources to consult (besides the Samguk Sagi) Asmolov, Konstantin V. "The System of Military Activity of Kogury?." Korea Journal 32:2 (Summer 1992): 103-116.
Gabriel, Richard A. and Boose, Donald W. "The Korean Way of War: Salsu River." In Richard A. Gabriel and Donald W. Boose. The Great Battles of Antiquity: A Strategic and Tactical Guide to Great Battles that Shaped the Development of War. Westport, CN: Greenwood Press, 1994. Wikipedia (if you read Chinese or Korean compare those Wikipedia entries, too) Search also under Battle of the Salsu River. Try also looking under Eulji Mundeok
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Publications and Educational Articles - Korean Heritage (Quarterly from the Cultural Heritage Administration) o http://www.english.cha.go.kr - Koreana - Art and Culture (Quarterly magazine of the Korea Foundation) o http://www.koreana.or.kr - Korea (Monthly magazine of the Korean Culture and Information Service) o http://www.korea.net Teaching Resources - Korean Spirit & Culture Promotion Project, http://www.kscpp.net - Asia Educational Media Service, http://www.aems.illinois.edu/ - Asia for Educators, http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/ - The Korea Foundation, http://www.kf.or.kr/ - The Korea Society, http://www.koreasociety.org/k-12_resources/ - World Affairs Council Teacher Resource Packets Online o http://www.world-affairs.org/globalclassroom/resourcepackets.htm
Current News about Korea
- The Korea Herald Online, http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/ - Korea.net, http://www.korea.net/news.do
Current and Pop Culture - Korean Film, http://www.koreanfilm.org - Korean Pop Culture, http://www.seoulstyle.com/culture.php - Go Korea! http://www.asiaeducation.edu.au/sites/gokorea/index1.html
via the KoreanStudies e-list today: Max Hastings The Korean War1987 Mark Phythian, The Labour Party, War and International Relations 1945-2006 (Routledge, 2007), Clement Attlee (his memoirs), As it Happened, 1954. Kenneth O. Morgan, Labour in Power 1945?51, Oxford University Press, 1984; Alan Bullock, Life and Times of Ernest Bevin, Politicos Publising in 2002.
Flagship of a Fleet, A Korean Gallery Guide Dr. Paul Michael Taylor and Christopher Lotis Asian Cultural History Program, Smithsonian Institute ISBN 078-0-9724557-0-1 Flagship of a Fleet: A Korea Gallery Guide ...serves as a companion guide to the Korea Gallery, an on-going exhibition at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. The Korea Gallery presents a millennia of history and its distinctive culture through ceramics, paintings, textiles, and sculptures, ranging from the 6th century B.C.E. Introducing Korea to a broad audience, the guidebook highlights and identifies the objects on exhibit, many of them previously unpublished. The book includes an introduction to the Smithsonian's Asian Cultural History Program and its Korean Heritage Project, founded in 1985. It provides a historical context and background of how the Korea Gallery exhibition developed within an integrated curatorial program. The authors consider this exhibition the flagship of a fleet of related activities in the field of Korean heritage, including research, education, outreach, public programs and the development and improvement of museum collections.
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via the koreanstudies-web e-list [thanks to Todd Henry] "2009 Lost Memories," "YMCA Baseball Club," "Once Upon a Time," "Radio Days," "Modern Boy," "The Korean Peninsula," "Epitaph," and "Asako in Ruby Shoes," to name a few.
documentaries, "Annyong, Sayonara" and "Choi Sunghee: The Korean Dancer,"
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extract from KoreaToday story: ...On April 20, KT fired up the e-book open market with the launch of QOOK Book Café ( http://bookcafe.qook.co.kr), which provides diverse content such as books, comics and magazines on a range of terminals including computers, e-book readers and smart phones.
Sixty of Rich's photos are on display May-June, 2010 in Seoul. His book will be in two editions, (in Korean & in English) with the complete series of pictures. Korean War in Color: A Correspondent's Retrospective on a Forgotten War By John Rich 170 color photos. 248 pages. Seoul Selection. 60,000 won.
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April 1, 2010 An island in the Yellow Sea is the base of operations to find 46 missing South Korean sailors from a navy ship that went down March 26 after a mysterious explosion. Baengnyeong Island is about 10 miles from North Korea's west coast. Its residents try to live ordinary lives — but are among the first to suffer when tensions rise. [Nat'l Public Radio 1 April 2010]
The literacy rate in colonial Korea, according to statistics, was geographically very uneven. In 1930, the national average was 49% for men and 11% for women (age 12 and above). In Seoul, however, 80% of men and 44% of women could read and write Korean, and in P'yongyang 83% of men and 40% of women. Plus, about 53% of men and 15% of women in Seoul were bilingual. The most comprehensive compilation of statistics for colonial Korea in English, still, is Andrew Grajdanzev's Modern Korea. Here is a Google Books link: http://books.google.com/books?id=5jp8-KKy6eAC&dq=modern+korea&source=gbs_navlinks_s
The Korean Press Foundation (KPF) provides an index of all articles of Korean newspapers. Their KINDS service is well-known among Korean mass communication and journalism scholars. http://www.kpf.or.kr/index2.html [Korean Language website]
Korea and her neighbors; a narrative of travel, with an account of the recent vicissitudes and present position of the country, by Isabella Bird Bishop ... With a preface by Sir Walter C. Hillier ... With illustrations from photographs by the author ... Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy), 1831-1904.New York, Revell, 1897. (Full text) on GoogleBooks
via koreaweb.ws on Jan. 20, 2010; announced by
Angie Cope, Senior Academic Librarian
American Geographical Society Library - UW Milwaukee Libraries
2311 E. Hartford Avenue, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201 USA
AGS Library map: 1861 Territorial Map of the Great East online
view all 22 sheets, 1 index sheet and 1 composite map:
http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/u?/agdm,828
OTHER MAPS OF INTEREST
Haejwa Jondo or [A native map of Chosen] -
http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/u?/agdm,604
Whole map of Seoul, 2nd Book - http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/u?/agdm,605
Yeojido [atlas of Korea from between 1823-1869] -
http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/u?/agdm,705
Shannon McCune and George C. Foulk Photographs of Korea -
http://www4.uwm.edu/libraries/digilib/agsphoto/index.cfm
cf. http://old-koreaphotos.wikispaces.com
see also, Nov 20, 2009 symposium "Korean maps of the 19th Century"
http://www4.uwm.edu/libraries/AGSL/korean_maps.cfm
via the KoreanStudies e-list of January 12, 2010:
...the Academy of Korean Studies has started to distribute their wealth of premodern historical
data under a Creative Commons license. For one example, see: http://bit.ly/7OJHyu. Not all parts of the AKS website reflect this change yet...
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