The Northeast Asian History Foundation (ed.). — Brill, 2012. — 234 p. The national historical "ownership" of the ancient Northeast Asian kingdom of Parhae (Ch. Bohai; 669-926) has been a controversial issue over the past several decades, with scholars in China, Korea, and even Russia all claiming that Parhae belonged to their nations' history. The authors of the various...
Victoria University of Wellington / Te Herenga Waka, 2018. — 105 p. The Code of Governance for the Joseon Dynasty written by Jeong Do-jeon in 1394 was the first legal document written in justification of a new Korean dynasty. The eminent Korean historian Han Young-woo has credited the political scheme formulated in the Code for promoting democratic ideas of power separation....
Leiden, Boston: Brill, 1985. — ix, 164 p. — (Numen Book Series 47). The main purpose of this work is to present a model for the process of religious diffusion, which I term emplantation. There are many studies which have dealt with the particularity of religious diffusion over a greater or shorter span of time, but I believe this to be the first time that this cultural process...
University of Hawai'i Press, 2024. — 381 p. Among all the Korean dynasties, the Koryŏ dynasty (918-1392) was the first to have contact with the Western world. It was from these interactions that the current appellation of "Korea" was derived from the Koryŏ name. The Koryŏsa, or the History of Koryŏ, is one of the most significant historical texts on the Koryŏ Dynasty of the...
Routledge, 2025. — 385 p. — (Routledge Handbooks). Korea is a historical region of prominence in the global political economy. Still, a comprehensive overview of its early modern era has yet to receive a book-length treatment in English. Comprising topical chapters written by 22 experts from 11 countries, The Routledge Handbook of Early Modern Korea presents an...
Columbia University Press, 2023. — 453 p. — (Premodern East Asia: New Horizons). For more than two hundred years after its establishment in 1392, the Chosŏn dynasty of Korea enjoyed generally peaceful and stable relations with neighboring Ming China, which dwarfed it in size, population, and power. This remarkably long period of sustained peace was not an inevitable consequence...
Brill, 2015. — xvi, 328 p. — (Brill's Korean Studies Library 4). This outline of Korea’s civilisation is a cultural history that examines the ways the Korean people over the past two millennia understood the world and viewed their place in society. In the traditional era, the interaction between several broad religious and philosophical traditions and social institutions, state...
University of Alberta, 2016. — 91 p. Marriage alliance, or heqin 和親, was used as a diplomatic policy as early as in the Western Han dynasty (206 BCE-9 CE). Except for a few who possessed a great personality, princess brides showed little political authority and influence in their marital home, a foreign court. In appearance, the marriage relationship between the Yuan...
М.: Наука. Главная редакция восточной литературы, 1987. — 287 с. В монографии на основе данных средневековых корейских источников исследуются некоторые аспекты формирования служебных слоев в Корее. Прослеживается создание аппарата государственного управления, рассматриваются его структура и функции. Исследуется процесс возникновения чиновничества, превращения его в особую...
Исследование, перевод с ханмуна, комментарий и указатели Ю.В. Болтач. — СПб.: Издательство С.-Петербургского университета, 2007. — 184 с. «Жизнеописания достойных монахов Страны, что к востоку от моря» (Хэдон косын чон), составленные в начале XIII в. монахом Какхуном, — древнейший сохранившийся до наших дней памятник корейской буддийской историографии. Из этого сочинения можно...