Chapters (84)
- Works by Wm. Elliot Griffis
- PREFACE TO THE NINTH EDITION.
- PREFACE TO THE EIGHTH EDITION.
- PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.
- BIBLIOGRAPHY.
- ORTHOGRAPHY AND PRONUNCIATION.
- MAPS AND PLANS.
- CONTENTS.
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
- I. ANCIENT AND MEDIÆVAL HISTORY
- COREA: THE HERMIT NATION. CHAPTER I. THE COREAN PENINSULA.
- CHAPTER II. THE OLD KINGDOM OF CHŌ-SEN.
- CHAPTER III. THE FUYU RACE AND THEIR MIGRATIONS.
- CHAPTER IV. SAM-HAN, OR SOUTHERN COREA.
- MA-HAN AND BEN-HAN.
- SHIN-HAN.
- CHAPTER V. EPOCH OF THE THREE KINGDOMS.—HIAKSAI.
- CHAPTER VI. EPOCH OF THE THREE KINGDOMS.—KORAI.
- CHAPTER VII. EPOCH OF THE THREE KINGDOMS.—SHINRA.
- CHAPTER VIII. JAPAN AND COREA.
- CHAPTER IX. KORAI, OR UNITED COREA.
- CHAPTER X. CATHAY, ZIPANGU, AND THE MONGOLS.
- CHAPTER XI. NEW CHŌ-SEN.
- CHAPTER XII. EVENTS LEADING TO THE JAPANESE INVASION.
- CHAPTER XIII. THE INVASION—ON TO SEOUL.
- CHAPTER XIV. THE CAMPAIGN IN THE NORTH.
- CHAPTER XV. THE RETREAT FROM SEOUL.
- CHAPTER XVI. CESPEDES, THE CHRISTIAN CHAPLAIN.
- CHAPTER XVII DIPLOMACY AT KIŌTO AND PEKING.
- CHAPTER XVIII. THE SECOND INVASION.
- CHAPTER XIX. THE SIEGE OF URU-SAN CASTLE.
- CHAPTER XX. CHANGES AFTER THE INVASION.
- CHAPTER XXI. THE ISSACHAR OF EASTERN ASIA.
- CHAPTER XXII. THE DUTCHMEN IN EXILE.
- II. POLITICAL AND SOCIAL COREA.
- POLITICAL AND SOCIAL COREA. CHAPTER XXIII. THE EIGHT PROVINCES.
- PING-AN, OR THE PACIFIC.
- THE YELLOW-SEA PROVINCE.
- KIUNG-KEI, OR THE CAPITAL PROVINCE.
- CHUNG-CHONG, OR SERENE LOYALTY.
- CHULLA, OR COMPLETE NETWORK.
- KIUNG-SANG, OR RESPECTFUL CONGRATULATION.
- KANG-WEN, THE RIVER-MEADOW PROVINCE.
- HAM-KIUNG, OR COMPLETE VIEW.
- CHAPTER XXIV. THE KING AND ROYAL PALACE.
- CHAPTER XXV. POLITICAL PARTIES.
- CHAPTER XXVI. ORGANIZATION AND METHODS OF GOVERNMENT.
- CHAPTER XXVII. FEUDALISM, SERFDOM, AND SOCIETY.
- CHAPTER XXVIII. SOCIAL LIFE.—WOMAN AND THE FAMILY.
- CHAPTER XXIX. CHILD LIFE.
- CHAPTER XXX. HOUSEKEEPING, DIET, AND COSTUME.
- CHAPTER XXXI. MOURNING AND BURIAL.
- CHAPTER XXXII. OUT-DOOR LIFE.—CHARACTERS AND EMPLOYMENTS.
- CHAPTER XXXIII. SHAMANISM AND MYTHICAL ZOÖLOGY.
- CHAPTER XXXIV. LEGENDS AND FOLK-LORE.
- CHAPTER XXXV. PROVERBS AND PITHY SAYINGS.
- CHAPTER XXXVI. THE COREAN TIGER.
- CHAPTER XXXVII. RELIGION.
- CHAPTER XXXVIII. EDUCATION AND CULTURE.
- III. MODERN AND RECENT HISTORY.
- MODERN AND RECENT HISTORY. CHAPTER XXXIX. THE BEGINNINGS OF CHRISTIANITY—1784–1794.
- CHAPTER XL. PERSECUTION AND MARTYRDOM—1801–1834.
- CHAPTER XLI. THE ENTRANCE OF THE FRENCH MISSIONARIES—1835–1845.
- CHAPTER XLII. THE WALLS OF ISOLATION SAPPED.
- CHAPTER XLIII. THE FRENCH EXPEDITION.
- CHAPTER XLIV. AMERICAN RELATIONS WITH COREA.
- CHAPTER XLV. A BODY-SNATCHING EXPEDITION.
- CHAPTER XLVI. “OUR LITTLE WAR WITH THE HEATHEN.”
- CHAPTER XLVII. THE PORTS OPENED TO JAPANESE COMMERCE.
- CHAPTER XLVIII. THE YEAR OF THE TREATIES.
- CHAPTER XLIX. THE ECONOMIC CONDITION OF COREA.
- CHAPTER L. INTERNAL POLITICS: CHINESE AND JAPANESE.
- CHAPTER LI. THE WAR OF 1894: COREA AN EMPIRE.
- CHAPTER LII. JAPAN AND RUSSIA IN CONFLICT.
- CHAPTER LIII. COREA A JAPANESE PROTECTORATE.
- CHAPTER LIV. CHŌ-SEN: A PROVINCE OF JAPAN.
- INDEX.
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- Revision History
- External References
- Corrections
- Abbreviations
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