Establishing a Pluralist Society in Medieval Korea, 918-1170

by Breuker, Remco E.

• ISBN13: 9789004183254
• ISBN10: 9004183256
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-04-30
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub

Summary

Recognizing the uniquely codified pluralist orientation of early KoryÅ society (918-1170), this book presents a radical re-evaluation of KoryÅ identities and self-perceptions, which entails far-reaching consequences for the understanding of KoryÅ histo

Author Biography

Remco E. Breuker, Ph.D. (2006) in Korean History, Leiden University, works on medieval Korean and Northeast Asian history and historiography. He has published extensively on Koryo history including Forging the Truth: Creative Deception and National Identity in Medieval Korea (2009).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. ix
Sources in Classical Chinese and their abbreviations	p. xiii
Conventions	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
Establishment of a Pluralist Community
Collective names and designations	p. 29
A historic territory in Koryo	p. 59
Shared ideas of descent	p. 83
Tracing legitimation	p. 111
Understanding Koryo Pluralist Ideology
The Koryo ruler, common focus of obedience and worship	p. 147
Koryo diplomacy	p. 195
Pluralist literati in Koryo	p. 257
The origins of Koryo pluralism	p. 289
Koryo's Practical Realities of Engagement
The oldest extant history and the perpetuation of a pluralist past in shared memories and histores	p. 317
The Ten injunctions	p. 351
Myochong's challenge: The bid for the 'impossible good'	p. 407
Bibliography	p. 447
Bibliography: works in classical Chinese	p. 473
Index	p. 475
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