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Author Lewis, James Bryant

Title Frontier contact between chosŏn Korea and Tokugawa Japan / James B. Lewis
Published London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 322 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Chapter 1 Introduction: reconstructing the past and constructing the future -- chapter 2 TSUSHIMA'S IDENTITY AND THE POST-IMJIN WAERAN JAPAN HOUSE -- chapter 3 The demographic significance of the Japan House: in search of a maritime economy -- chapter 4 The economic significance of the Waegwan -- chapter 5 The political significance of the Waegwan -- chapter 6 Leaky roofs and other matters: the riot as a Japanese negotiating tactic -- chapter 7 Pénétration du corps sociale: prostitution and the rivalry of power and culture at the Japan house in the eighteenth century -- chapter 8 CONCLUSION
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 298-316) and index
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Subject POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General.
Tokugawa period, Japan, 1600-1868
International relations
Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East.
History & Archaeology.
East Asia.
SUBJECT Korea -- Relations -- Japan
Japan -- Relations -- Korea
Korea -- History -- 1637-1864. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85073033
Japan -- History -- Tokugawa period, 1600-1868. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069473
Subject Japan
Korea
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2003041582
ISBN 0203987322
9780203987322
9780700713011
0700713018
9781135795993
1135795991
9781135795948
1135795940
9781135795986
1135795983
9780415600064
0415600065