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Corea, the hermit nation

Corea, the hermit nation

by William Elliot Griffis

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Author
Griffis, William Elliot, 1843-1928
Title
Corea: The Hermit Nation
Original Publication
United States: Charles Scribner's Sons,1911.
Credits
Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
Language
English
LoC Class
DS: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Asia
Subject
Korea -- Social life and customs
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 67141
Release Date
January 10, 2022
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.Untitled
  2. 2.Works by Wm. Elliot Griffis
  3. 3.PREFACE TO THE NINTH EDITION.
  4. 4.PREFACE TO THE EIGHTH EDITION.
  5. 5.PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.
  6. 6.BIBLIOGRAPHY. — ORTHOGRAPHY AND PRONUNCIATION.
  7. 7.MAPS AND PLANS.
  8. 8.CONTENTS.
  9. 9.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
  10. 10.ANCIENT AND MEDIÆVAL HISTORY
  11. 11.THE COREAN PENINSULA.
  12. 12.THE OLD KINGDOM OF CHŌ-SEN.
  13. 13.THE FUYU RACE AND THEIR MIGRATIONS.
  14. 14.SAM-HAN, OR SOUTHERN COREA. — MA-HAN AND BEN-HAN. — SHIN-HAN.
  15. 15.EPOCH OF THE THREE KINGDOMS.—HIAKSAI.
  16. 16.EPOCH OF THE THREE KINGDOMS.—KORAI.
  17. 17.EPOCH OF THE THREE KINGDOMS.—SHINRA.
  18. 18.JAPAN AND COREA.
  19. 19.KORAI, OR UNITED COREA.
  20. 20.CATHAY, ZIPANGU, AND THE MONGOLS.
  21. 21.NEW CHŌ-SEN.
  22. 22.EVENTS LEADING TO THE JAPANESE INVASION.
  23. 23.THE INVASION—ON TO SEOUL.
  24. 24.THE CAMPAIGN IN THE NORTH.
  25. 25.THE RETREAT FROM SEOUL.
  26. 26.CESPEDES, THE CHRISTIAN CHAPLAIN.
  27. 27.DIPLOMACY AT KIŌTO AND PEKING.
  28. 28.THE SECOND INVASION.
  29. 29.THE SIEGE OF URU-SAN CASTLE.
  30. 30.CHANGES AFTER THE INVASION.
  31. 31.THE ISSACHAR OF EASTERN ASIA.
  32. 32.THE DUTCHMEN IN EXILE.
  33. 33.POLITICAL AND SOCIAL COREA.
  34. 34.THE EIGHT PROVINCES. — PING-AN, OR THE PACIFIC. — THE YELLOW-SEA PROVINCE. — KIUNG-KEI, OR THE CAPITAL PROVINCE. — CHUNG-CHONG, OR SERENE LOYALTY. — CHULLA, OR COMPLETE NETWORK. — KIUNG-SANG, OR RESPECTFUL CONGRATULATION. — KANG-WEN, THE RIVER-MEADOW PROVINCE. — HAM-KIUNG, OR COMPLETE VIEW.
  35. 35.THE KING AND ROYAL PALACE.
  36. 36.POLITICAL PARTIES.
  37. 37.ORGANIZATION AND METHODS OF GOVERNMENT.
  38. 38.FEUDALISM, SERFDOM, AND SOCIETY.
  39. 39.SOCIAL LIFE.—WOMAN AND THE FAMILY.
  40. 40.CHILD LIFE.
  41. 41.HOUSEKEEPING, DIET, AND COSTUME.
  42. 42.MOURNING AND BURIAL.
  43. 43.OUT-DOOR LIFE.—CHARACTERS AND EMPLOYMENTS.
  44. 44.SHAMANISM AND MYTHICAL ZOÖLOGY.
  45. 45.LEGENDS AND FOLK-LORE.
  46. 46.PROVERBS AND PITHY SAYINGS.
  47. 47.THE COREAN TIGER.
  48. 48.RELIGION.
  49. 49.EDUCATION AND CULTURE.
  50. 50.MODERN AND RECENT HISTORY.
  51. 51.THE BEGINNINGS OF CHRISTIANITY—1784–1794.
  52. 52.PERSECUTION AND MARTYRDOM—1801–1834.
  53. 53.THE ENTRANCE OF THE FRENCH MISSIONARIES—1835–1845.
  54. 54.THE WALLS OF ISOLATION SAPPED.
  55. 55.THE FRENCH EXPEDITION.
  56. 56.AMERICAN RELATIONS WITH COREA.
  57. 57.A BODY-SNATCHING EXPEDITION.
  58. 58.“OUR LITTLE WAR WITH THE HEATHEN.”
  59. 59.THE PORTS OPENED TO JAPANESE COMMERCE.
  60. 60.THE YEAR OF THE TREATIES.
  61. 61.THE ECONOMIC CONDITION OF COREA.
  62. 62.INTERNAL POLITICS: CHINESE AND JAPANESE.
  63. 63.THE WAR OF 1894: COREA AN EMPIRE.
  64. 64.JAPAN AND RUSSIA IN CONFLICT.
  65. 65.COREA A JAPANESE PROTECTORATE.
  66. 66.CHŌ-SEN: A PROVINCE OF JAPAN.
  67. 67.INDEX.
  68. 68.Colophon — Availability — Metadata — Revision History — External References — Corrections — Abbreviations

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