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I am pleased to make a new book announcement:</div>
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Park, Eugene Y., ed.<i> <a href="https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Early-Modern-Korea/Park/p/book/9781032200620" id="LPlnk" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Early-Modern-Korea/Park/p/book/9781032200620" data-auth="NotApplicable">The
Routledge Handbook of Early Modern Korea</a></i>. Routledge, 2025. 384 pp. $52.19 eBook, $300.00 hardback. ISBN: 9781032200620</div>
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According to the publisher, the initial hardback edition is aimed at the library market before a more affordable paperback edition follows about 18 months later. </div>
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The table of contents and the blurb are as follows:</div>
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<b> Introduction</b></div>
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<i> Eugene Y. Park</i></div>
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<b>Part I: Chosŏn in Time and Space</b></div>
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<b>Chapter 1 / Korea and Early Modernity</b></div>
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<i> Sixiang Wang</i></div>
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<b>Chapter 2 / Foreign Relations</b></div>
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<i> Kirk W. Larsen</i></div>
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<b>Chapter 3 / Korea as “Little China” (<i>So Chungwa</i>)</b></div>
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<i> Nataliya A. Chesnokova</i></div>
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<b>Chapter 4 / Korea in Japan</b></div>
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<i> Rebekah Clements</i></div>
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<b>Part II / The State, Power, and Resource</b></div>
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<b>Chapter 5 / Politics</b></div>
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<i> Christopher Lovins</i></div>
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<b>Chapter 6 / The Military</b></div>
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<i> Felix Siegmund</i></div>
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<b>Chapter 7 / Discontent</b></div>
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<i> Andrew David Jackson</i></div>
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<b>Chapter 8 / Economy</b></div>
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<i> Young-Jun Cho</i></div>
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<b>Part III: Society and Identity</b></div>
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<b>Chapter 9 / Status and Class</b></div>
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<i> Eugene Y. Park</i></div>
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<b>Chapter 10 / Foreigners and the Descendants</b></div>
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<i> Adam Bohnet</i></div>
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<b>Chapter 11 / Gender</b></div>
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<i> Marion Eggert</i></div>
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<b>Part IV: Philosophy and Religion</b></div>
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<b>Chapter 12 / Confucianism</b></div>
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<i> Isabelle Sancho</i></div>
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<b>Chapter 13 / Buddhism</b></div>
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<i> Juhn Y. Ahn</i></div>
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<b>Chapter 14 / Popular Religion</b></div>
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<i> Boudewijn Walraven</i></div>
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<b>Chapter 15 / Catholicism</b></div>
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<i> Franklin D. Rausch</i></div>
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<b>Part V: Language, Learning, and Knowledge</b></div>
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<b>Chapter 16 / Language</b></div>
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<i> Ross King</i></div>
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<b>Chapter 17 / Education</b></div>
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<i> Diana Yuksel</i></div>
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<b>Chapter 18 / Science and Technology</b></div>
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<i> Don Baker</i></div>
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<b>Part VI: Creative Genres</b></div>
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<b>Chapter 19 / Literature</b></div>
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<i> Gregory N. Evon</i></div>
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<b>Chapter 20 / Visual Arts</b></div>
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<i> Yoonjung Seo</i></div>
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<b>Chapter 21 / Performing Arts</b></div>
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<i> CedarBough T. Saeji</i></div>
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<b>Epilogue: Korea since 1873</b></div>
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<i> Mark E. Caprio</i></div>
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<b>Index</b></div>
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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, <i>The
Routledge Handbook of Early Modern Korea</i> presents an interdisciplinary survey of Korea’s politics, society, economy, and culture from the founding of the Chosŏn state (1392–1897) to 1873 when its political leadership began preparing for treaty relations
with Imperial Japan, the United States, and other Western nations. Chosŏn mirrors shared historical patterns among literate sedentary societies of early modern Afro-Eurasia. Various long-term developments that shaped early modern Korea include the completion
of centralized bureaucratic governance as codified in the State Administrative Code (Kyŏngguk taejŏn); the appearance of regular rural marketplaces facilitating transactions in an increasingly liberalized economy; continuity of an aristocracy (<i>yangban</i>)
from the medieval period (Koryŏ: 918–1392); a decreasing correspondence between ascriptive status and socioeconomic class; and the state and the elite’s growing interest in encyclopedic knowledge and its dissemination while their monopoly on knowledge production
weakened. This handbook provides historical context for readers wishing to know more than just the “Korea” that evokes K-pop or North Korea’s nuclear weapons, while Hyundai, Samsung, and other South Korean brands have gained visibility in everyday life. Interested
English-speaking scholars, educators, students, and the general public without access to the large body of Korean-language works on Chosŏn will find this book a valuable critical introduction to early modern Korea.</div>
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