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Title

Family lineage records as a resource for Korean history : a case study of thirty-nine generations of the Sinch'ŏn Kang family (720 A.D.-1955) / Hildi Kang ; with a foreword by Gari Ledyard.

Author

Kang, Hildi, 1934-

Publication

Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, c2007.

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Description

xv, 269 p., [28] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps; 24 cm.

Subject

• Kang family
• Korea > History
• Korea > Genealogy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-248) and index.

Contents

1. Chokpo prologue excerpts -- 2. The founding ancestor: generation 1 (ca. 720 A.D.) -- 3. The link to Wang Kŏn, founder of Koryŏ: generations 2-6 (ca. 750-870) -- 4. Early years of the Koryŏ Dynasty: generations 7-13 (910-1150) -- 5. First solidly historical ancestor: generation 14 (ca. 1190) -- 6. Mongol (Yuan China) invasions: generations 15-19 (ca. 1210-90) --7. The black sheep: generation 20 (ca. 1310) -- 8. Creating a new dynasty: generation 21 (1356-96) -- 9. A skeleton in the closet: generation 21 (ca. 1350) -- 10. Becoming Confucian: generations 22-27 (ca. 1380-1575) -- 11. A bona fide hero: generation 28 (1603) -- 12. Emerging thoughts, changing directions: generations 29-34 (1633-1817) -- 13. Prelude to oral histories -- 14. The first Christian: generation 35 (1850-1915) -- 15. First doctor of Western medicine: generation 36 (1887-1967) -- 16. Growing up Korean in the Japanese colony: generation 37 (1910-86) -- 17. Korean bank manager in the Japanese colony: generation 37 (cont.) -- 18. Irrepressible childhood: generation 38 (1935-) -- 19. Childhood abandoned, 1945-47: generation 38 (cont.) -- 20. Turbulent years, 1947-53: generation 38 (concluded) -- 21. Unraveling the braid.

ISBN

• 9780773453395
• 0773453393

LCCN

2007023247

OCLC

• ocn138342521
• SCSB-1442359

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library