Human-animal relations and the hunt in Korea and Northeast Asia /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kallander, George L., 1967- (Author)
Corporate Author:	Walter de Gruyter & Co
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2023]
Series:	Encounters in the Middle East and Asia.
Subjects:	Hunting > Social aspects > Korea > History > To 1500. Human-animal relationships > Asia > History > To 1500. Korea > History > Chosŏn dynasty, 1392-1910. Korea > History > Koryŏ period, 935-1392. Human-animal relationships. Hunting > Social aspects. Asia. Korea. To 1910 Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Introduction: Why animals and the hunt?
Wild beasts on a premodern peninsula
KoryM and the empire of the hunt
Growth, transformation and challenge in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries
Confucian beasts: human-animal relations in early Chosŏn
Stalking the forests: the military on the chase in the mid-fifteenth century
Challenges to the royal military Kangmu hunt
Public animals, private hunts and royal authority in the fifteenth century
Release the falcons: a king in a Confucian court
Taming wild animals and beastly monarchs
Conclusion: Legacies of the hunt in politics, society and empire.