Korea has long had an underground insurrectionary literature. The best-known example of the genre is the Chng Kam nok, a collection of premodern texts predicting the overthrow of the Yi Dynasty. In his introduction to this first English translation, John Jorgensen notes that the work employs forms or codes of political prediction allied with Chinese geomancy but in a combination unique to Korea.

Brings together in a single volume an introduction to Yi Chung-hwan's (1690-1756) T'aengniji (Treatise on Choosing Settlement) - one of the most widely read and influential of the Korean classics - and an annotated translation of the text, including the author's postscript.

The life and work of Kim Iryŏp (1896–1971) bear witness to Korea’s encounter with modernity. A prolific writer, Iryŏp reflected on identity and existential loneliness in her poems, short stories, and autobiographical essays. As a pioneering feminist intellectual, she dedicated herself to gender issues and understanding the changing role of women in Korean society. As an influential Buddhist nun, she examined religious teachings and strove to interpret modern human existence through a religious world view. Originally published in Korea when Iryŏp was in her sixties, Reflections of a Zen...