[KS] Book announcement

[Korean Studies]

Dear colleagues,

I would like to announce the publication of my new book (translation):

      Politics of Public Opinion: Local Councils and People's Assemblies in Korea, 1567–1894<https://brill.com/display/title/69703?language=en>.
      By Kim Ingeol. Trans. Eugene Y. Park. Brill, 2024. 260 pp. $57.00 hardback. ISBN: 978-90-04-69917-5

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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:

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 Chosŏn 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 hoeŭi)
 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, Kyŏngsang
 3 The 1862 People’s Assembly in Sŏngju, Kyŏngsang
 4 The 1869 Popular Disturbance (Minbyŏn) and the People’s Assembly of Ch’unwŏn District in Kosŏng, Kyŏngsang
 5 The Transformation of People’s Assemblies
 6 The 1894 Group Petition from Tosŏn District in Kosŏng, Kyŏngsang
Final Thoughts
List of Transliterated Terms
Works Cited
Index

For anyone interested, here are information links for my other books:

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Routledge Handbook of Early Modern Korea<https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Early-Modern-Korea/Park/p/book/9781032200620?srsltid=AfmBOorV6IfA5dE7e1k2TLomzbggR7YWVrw36FbcJVqZUq15tfkQWfll>. Edited volume. Routledge, 2025. In press.
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Korea: A History<https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=34169>. Stanford University Press, 2022.
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A Genealogy of Dissent: The Progeny of Fallen Royals in Chosŏn Korea<https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=28427>. Stanford University Press, 2018.
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Peace in the East: An Chunggŭn’s Vision for Asia in the Age of Japanese Imperialism<https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498566414/Peace-in-the-East-An-Chungguns-Vision-for-Asia-in-the-Age-of-Japanese-Imperialism>. Edited volume (with Yi Tae-Jin and Kirk W. Larsen). Lexington Books, 2017.
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A Family of No Prominence: The Descendants of Pak Tŏkhwa and the Birth of Modern Korea<https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=22981>. Stanford University Press, 2014.
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Between Dreams and Reality: The Military Examination in Late Chosŏn Korea, 1600–1894<https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674025028>. Harvard University Asia Center, 2007.

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Yours,

Gene

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Eugene Y. Park  朴英鎭
Professor of History
University of Nevada, Reno
https://www.unr.edu/history/faculty-staff/eugene-park
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