Preface
Maps: Early Kingdoms on the Korean Peninsula
Modern Korea
Chronology of Korean History
Introduction
I. The Creation of State Identity
1. From Earliest Times to AD 668: Cultural Patterns in Flux
2. Unified Silla, AD 668-936: The Building of Confidence
3. Koryo, 918-1392: The Struggle for Independence
4. Early to Mid-Choson, 1392-1800: The Search for an Acceptable Orthodoxy
II. A Century of Insecurity
5. The Hermit Kingdom, 1800-64: Tradition at Work
6. Incursion, Modernization and Reform, 1864-1905: Tradition at Bay
III. A Century of Suffering
7. Culture under Threat, 1905-45: The Colonial Era
8. Partition and War, 1945-53: Return to Disunity
9. Post-War Korea: Tradition and Change
Sources and Further Reading
Discography
Acknowledgements
Index