Frontier Contact Between Choson Korea and Tokugawa Japan

ISBN-13: 9780700713011 / Twarda / 2003 / 340 str.

James B. Lewis

Opis

This study draws on a wide base of primary sources for Korea and Japan and introduces the problems that animate modern scholarship in both countries.

Spis treści

Introduction The historical and geographical theatre of operations Money: functions and costs of local and national envoys Elites: Korean images of the Japanese and Japanese images of the Koreans Politics: Tongnae as a dangerous appointment Violence: the riot as a Japanese negotiating tactic Sex: prostitution and the struggle for power and authority at the Japan House Property: thievery as a capital offense or a mildly offensive act Conclusion

O autorze

James B. Lewis is the Korea Foundation University Lecturer in Korean STudies, Director of the Korean Studies Programme and Fellow of Wolfson College, University of Oxford. His current projects include The Korin Teisei, an Eighteenth-century Japanese view of Korea; the Imjin Waeran: Problems and Perspectives; An Economic History of Korea, 1400-1930.