Politics of Public Opinion

Local Councils and People's Assemblies in Korea, 1567-1894
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-69917-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 9, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

Reihe: Brill's Korean Studies Library

Eugene Y. Park’s annotated translation of a long-awaited book by Kim Ingeol introduces Anglophone readers to a path-breaking scholarship on the widening social base of political actors who shaped “public opinion” (kongnon) in early modern Korea. Initially limited to high officials, the articulators of public opinion as the state and elites recognized grew in number to include mid-level civil officials, State Confucian College students, all Confucian literati (yurim), influential commoners who took over local councils (hyanghoe), and the general population. Marshaling evidence from a wealth of documents, Kim presents a compelling case for the indigenous origins of Korean democracy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kim, Ingeol

Weitere Mitwirkende

Park, Eugene Y.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Translator’s Preface

Author’s Preface to the English Edition

Author’s Preface to the Korean Edition

List of Figures

Conventions

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

1 The Setting: Structure and Evolution

1 Choson Political History and the Politics of Public Opinion

2 The Structure of Public Opinion Politics

3 Local Councils and the Evolution of Public Opinion Politics

2 Conventional Wisdom: Continuity and Break

1 Popular Opinion and the Politics of Public Opinion

2 The Transformation of Politics of Public Opinion

3 Break and Continuity in the Eighteenth Century

3 Changing Characteristics of Eighteenth-Century Local Councils

1 County Public Opinion Divided

2 Increased Government Control and Assemblies of All People (Taesomin hoeui)

3 From an Organ of Aristocratic Autonomy to a Tax Advisory Body

4 New Politics of Public Opinion in the Nineteenth Century

1 Directions for Understanding Nineteenth-Century History

2 Forms of Local Councils and Conflicting Methods of Implementing Public Opinion

3 Transformed Local Councils in the Nineteenth Century

5 The Rise of People’s Assemblies

1 People’s Assemblies and Popular Uprisings

2 Popular Opinion and the 1862 People’s Assembly in Sangju, Kyongsang

3 The 1862 People’s Assembly in Songju, Kyongsang

4 The 1869 Popular Disturbance (Minbyon) and the People’s Assembly of Ch’unwon District in Kosong, Kyongsang

5 The Transformation of People’s Assemblies

6 The 1894 Group Petition from Toson District in Kosong, Kyongsang

Final Thoughts

List of Transliterated Terms

Works Cited

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kim Ingeol, Ph.D., Seoul National University, is a Professor Emeritus of Korean History at his alma mater. He has published numerous studies in Korean history, including Choson sidae sahoesa wa Han’guksa insik [Choson social history and understanding Korean history] (Kyongin munhwasa, 2017).

Eugene Y. Park, Ph.D., Harvard University, is a Professor of History at the University of Nevada, Reno. He has published books, book chapters, and articles in Korean history, including Korea: A History (Stanford University Press, 2022).