Politics of Public Opinion : Local Councils and People's Assemblies in Korea, 1567-1894 /

Politics of Public Opinion : Local Councils and People's Assemblies in Korea, 1567-1894 /

Eugene Y. Park's annotated translation of a long-awaited book by Kim Ingeol introduces Anglophone readers to a path-breaking scholarship on the widening social base of political actors who shaped "public opinion" ( kongnon ) in early modern Korea. Initially limited to high officials,...

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Main Author: Ingeol, Kim (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Asian Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2025.
Brill's Korean Studies Library ; 9.

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Communication in politics > Korea > History.
Confucianists > Political activity > Korea.
Korea > Politics and government > 1637-1864.

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Call Number: DS914.35

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Table of Contents:
  • 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.