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Record Nr.

UNINA9910957590903321

Autore

Lewis James Bryant

Titolo

Frontier contact between choson Korea and Tokugawa Japan / / James B. Lewis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : RoutledgeCurzon, 2003

ISBN

1-135-79598-3

1-135-79599-1

1-280-23934-4

9786610239344

0-203-98732-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (337 p.)

Disciplina

327.519052/09/03

Soggetti

Korea Relations Japan

Japan Relations Korea

Korea History 1637-1864

Japan History Tokugawa period, 1600-1868

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 298-316) and index.

Nota di contenuto

BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; FIGURES; MAPS; TABLES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 1 INTRODUCTION; 2 TSUSHIMA'S IDENTITY AND THE POST-IMJIN WAERAN JAPAN HOUSE; 3 THE DEMOGRAPHIC SIGNIFICANCE OF THE JAPAN HOUSE; 4 THE ECONOMIC SIGNIFICANCE OF THE WAEGWAN; 5 THE POLITICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE WAEGWAN; 6 LEAKY ROOFS AND OTHER MATTERS; 7 PÉNÉTRATION DU CORPS SOCIALE; 8 CONCLUSION; APPENDIX A; APPENDIX B; GLOSSARY; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

East Asia from 1400 to 1850 was a vibrant web of connections, and the southern coast of the Korean peninsula participated in a maritime world that stretched to Southeast Asia and beyond.  Within this world were Japanese pirates, traders, and fishermen.  They brought things to the Korean peninsula and they took things away.  The economic and demographic structures of Kyongsang Province had deep and wide connections with these Japanese traders.  Social and political clashes revolving around the Japan House in Pusan reveal Korean mentalities



towards the Japanese connection.  This study seeks to d