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) /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kang, Hildi, 1934-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, [2007]
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Online Access:Table of contents only
Table of 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.