From the mid-seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century, millions of Korean men from all walks of life trained in the arts of war to prepare not for actual combat but to sit for the state military exam
In early modern Korea, the Choson state conducted an extermination campaign against the Kaesong Wang, descendants of the preceding Koryo dynasty. It was so thorough that most of today's descendants ar
This interdisciplinary collection examines the philosophy, politics, and legacy of An Chunggun. The contributors analyze his vision of pan-Asian cooperation and his opposition to Japanese militaristic
