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A new history of Korea

Discusses Korean history and culture from the earliest times to the student revolution of 1960
Print Book, English, 1984
Published for the Harvard-Yenching Institute by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1984
History
xxii, 474 pages, 13 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
9780674615755, 9780674615762, 0674615751, 067461576X
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Communal societies of prehistoric times
Walled-town states and confederated kingdoms
Aristocratic societies under monarchical rule
Fashioning of an authoritarian monarchy
Age of powerful gentry families
Hereditary aristocratic order of Koryŏ
Rule by the military
Emergence of the literati
Creation of a Yangban society
Rise of the neo-Confucian literati
Emergence of landed farmers and wholesale merchants
Instability of the Yangban status system and the outbreak of popular uprisings
Growth of the forces of enlightenment
Nationalist stirrings and imperialist aggression
Development of the nationalist movement
Beginnings of democracy
Translation of: Hanʼguksa sillon