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I would like to announce the publication of my new book (translation):</div>
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<i> <a href="https://brill.com/display/title/69703?language=en" id="OWAb5de3630-bd23-2de3-74d0-d3eca4245146" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://brill.com/display/title/69703?language=en" style="margin: 0px;">Politics of Public Opinion: Local Councils and
People's Assemblies in Korea, 1567–1894</a>.</i> </div>
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By Kim Ingeol. Trans. Eugene Y. Park. Brill, 2024. 260 pp. $57.00 hardback. ISBN: 978-90-04-69917-5</div>
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This is an annotated English translation of 조선후기 공론정치의 새로운 전개: 18, 19세기 향회, 민회를 중심으로 (서울대학교출판문화원, 2017) by Kim Ingeol 金仁杰, who is a Professor Emeritus of Korean History at Seoul National University and formerly President of the National Institute of Korean
History. The table of contents is as follows:</div>
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<b>Translator’s Preface</b></div>
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<b>Author’s Preface to the English Edition</b></div>
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<b>Author’s Preface to the Korean Edition</b></div>
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<b>List of Figures</b></div>
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<b>Conventions</b></div>
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<b>Notes on Contributors</b></div>
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<b>Introduction</b></div>
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1 <b>The Setting: Structure and Evolution</b><br>
1 Chosŏn Political History and the Politics of Public Opinion<br>
2 The Structure of Public Opinion Politics<br>
3 Local Councils and the Evolution of Public Opinion Politics<br>
2 <b>Conventional Wisdom: Continuity and Break</b><br>
1 Popular Opinion and the Politics of Public Opinion<br>
2 The Transformation of Politics of Public Opinion<br>
3 Break and Continuity in the Eighteenth Century</div>
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3 <b>Changing Characteristics of Eighteenth-Century Local Councils</b></div>
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1 County Public Opinion Divided<br>
2 Increased Government Control and Assemblies of All People (<i>Taesomin hoeŭi</i>)<br>
3 From an Organ of Aristocratic Autonomy to a Tax Advisory Body<br>
4 <b>New Politics of Public Opinion in the Nineteenth Century</b><br>
1 Directions for Understanding Nineteenth-Century History<br>
2 Forms of Local Councils and Conflicting Methods of Implementing Public Opinion<br>
3 Transformed Local Councils in the Nineteenth Century</div>
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5 <b>The Rise of People’s Assemblies</b></div>
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1 People’s Assemblies and Popular Uprisings<br>
2 Popular Opinion and the 1862 People’s Assembly in Sangju, Kyŏngsang<br>
3 The 1862 People’s Assembly in Sŏngju, Kyŏngsang<br>
4 The 1869 Popular Disturbance (<i>Minbyŏn</i>) and the People’s Assembly of Ch’unwŏn District in Kosŏng, Kyŏngsang<br>
5 The Transformation of People’s Assemblies<br>
6 The 1894 Group Petition from Tosŏn District in Kosŏng, Kyŏngsang</div>
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<b>Final Thoughts</b></div>
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<b>List of Transliterated Terms</b></div>
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<b>Works Cited</b></div>
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<b>Index</b></div>
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For anyone interested, here are information links for my other books:</div>
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<i><a href="https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Early-Modern-Korea/Park/p/book/9781032200620?srsltid=AfmBOorV6IfA5dE7e1k2TLomzbggR7YWVrw36FbcJVqZUq15tfkQWfll" id="LPlnk" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Early-Modern-Korea/Park/p/book/9781032200620?srsltid=AfmBOorV6IfA5dE7e1k2TLomzbggR7YWVrw36FbcJVqZUq15tfkQWfll">Routledge
Handbook of Early Modern Korea</a></i>. Edited volume. Routledge, 2025. In press.</div>
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<div class="elementToProof"><i><a href="https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=34169" id="LPlnk" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=34169">Korea: A History</a></i>. Stanford University Press, 2022.</div>
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<div class="elementToProof"><i><a href="https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=28427" id="LPlnk398364" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=28427">A Genealogy of Dissent: The Progeny of Fallen Royals in Chosŏn Korea</a></i>. Stanford
University Press, 2018.</div>
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<div class="elementToProof"><i><a href="https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498566414/Peace-in-the-East-An-Chungguns-Vision-for-Asia-in-the-Age-of-Japanese-Imperialism" id="LPlnk170696" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498566414/Peace-in-the-East-An-Chungguns-Vision-for-Asia-in-the-Age-of-Japanese-Imperialism">Peace
in the East: An Chunggŭn’s Vision for Asia in the Age of Japanese Imperialism</a></i>. Edited volume (with Yi Tae-Jin and Kirk W. Larsen). Lexington Books, 2017.</div>
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<div class="elementToProof"><i><a href="https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=22981" id="LPlnk" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=22981">A Family of No Prominence: The Descendants of Pak Tŏkhwa and the Birth of Modern Korea</a></i>.
Stanford University Press, 2014.</div>
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<div class="elementToProof"><i><a href="https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674025028" id="LPlnk118043" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674025028">Between Dreams and Reality: The Military Examination in Late Chosŏn Korea,
1600–1894</a></i>. Harvard University Asia Center, 2007.</div>
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