| Preface | p. xiii |
| Explanatory Note | p. xvii |
| Contributors | p. xix |
| Middle and Late Choson | p. 1 |
| Introduction | p. 3 |
| Politics | p. 12 |
| On Factionalism | p. 13 |
| Youth, the Censorate, and the Intractability of Factional Disputes | p. 17 |
| A Reexamination of the Civil Service Examination System | p. 20 |
| False Forms of Confucian Scholarship | p. 23 |
| The Roots of Royal Authority | p. 26 |
| Moral Character and Geography | p. 27 |
| Eliminating Factionalism | p. 30 |
| Education | p. 34 |
| The Neo-Confucian Curriculum | p. 35 |
| Primer for Youth | p. 37 |
| Local Education | p. 43 |
| County Magistrate's Guide for Promoting Education | p. 43 |
| Women's Education | p. 46 |
| Instructions for the Inner Quarters | p. 46 |
| Instructions to My Daughter | p. 49 |
| Family Instructions | p. 52 |
| A Letter to My Nephew | p. 52 |
| Letters to His Sons | p. 54 |
| A Letter to My Son Hagyon | p. 58 |
| Etiquette and Household Management | p. 60 |
| Small Manners for Scholars (Sasojol) | p. 60 |
| Preface to Encyclopedia of Women's Daily Life | p. 67 |
| Reform Proposals | p. 70 |
| Land Reform | p. 71 |
| A Proposal for Land Reform | p. 74 |
| On the Equal-Field System | p. 81 |
| On Land | p. 84 |
| Currency and a Growing Market Economy | p. 88 |
| Proposing a Tribute Replacement Surtax | p. 90 |
| The Advantages of Using Cash | p. 91 |
| On Getting People to Use Cash | p. 93 |
| On Currency | p. 95 |
| Technology | p. 99 |
| The Benefits of Irrigation | p. 99 |
| On Revering China | p. 101 |
| On Agriculture and Sericulture | p. 104 |
| Memorial of 1786 | p. 107 |
| Tools and Techniques | p. 113 |
| The Encounter with the West | p. 117 |
| The Western Calendar | p. 118 |
| Memorial on Western Calendrical Science | p. 118 |
| The Western-Style Calendar | p. 120 |
| On Giulio Aleni's World Geography | p. 121 |
| Criticism of Catholicism | p. 124 |
| Matteo Ricci's Catechism | p. 125 |
| European Values and European Education | p. 127 |
| A Conversation on Catholicism | p. 130 |
| The Persecution of Catholicism | p. 133 |
| How to Combat the Spread of Catholicism | p. 134 |
| An Appeal for Aid | p. 135 |
| A Confucian Defense of Catholicism | p. 138 |
| Sinify the Western Barbarians | p. 140 |
| Society | p. 143 |
| Community Compacts | p. 144 |
| Community Compact for Sowon County | p. 145 |
| Community Compact for Haeju County | p. 146 |
| The Revised Lu Family Community Compact | p. 149 |
| Slavery | p. 157 |
| Slaves | p. 159 |
| The Status System | p. 161 |
| Secondary Sons | p. 162 |
| Secondary Sons and Public Office | p. 163 |
| A Petition on Behalf of Secondary Sons | p. 165 |
| Inheritance Practices | p. 168 |
| Favoring Sons | p. 168 |
| Disinheriting Daughters | p. 170 |
| To a Daughter-in-Law | p. 170 |
| Government Corruption | p. 171 |
| Wicked Petty Officials | p. 171 |
| Popular Unrest | p. 173 |
| A Buddhist Rebellion | p. 174 |
| A Buddha Incarnate | p. 176 |
| Manifesto for the Hong Kyongnae Rebellion | p. 177 |
| Culture and National Identity | p. 181 |
| New Perspectives on History | p. 182 |
| On the Legitimacy of the Three Han | p. 182 |
| Parhae in Korean History | p. 186 |
| Literature, Music, and Song | p. 188 |
| Preface to Ch'onggu yongon | p. 189 |
| On Music | p. 191 |
| Neo-Confucian Philosophy | p. 194 |
| The Horak Controversy | p. 195 |
| Explanation of the Original Nature and the Physical Nature | p. 196 |
| Principle, Material Force, and Reality | p. 197 |
| Exclusive Reference | p. 198 |
| Mind and Material Force | p. 199 |
| The Continuing Debate Over Principle and Material Force | p. 200 |
| What the i/ki Debate Is Really All About | p. 200 |
| Wang Yang-ming in Korea | p. 203 |
| The Modern Period | p. 205 |
| Introduction | p. 207 |
| Domestic Disquiet and Foreign Threats | p. 212 |
| Internal Reforms Under the Taewongun | p. 212 |
| Preface to Proposals for Remedying Samjong | p. 213 |
| Political Reforms of the Taewongun | p. 216 |
| Western Incursions | p. 221 |
| Conflicts with the West | p. 222 |
| Negative Responses to Western Civilization | p. 227 |
| The Emergence of the Tonghak Religion | p. 228 |
| On Spreading Virtue | p. 230 |
| On Learning Truth | p. 232 |
| On Practicing Truth at Home | p. 234 |
| The Defense of Confucian Orthodoxy | p. 235 |
| Memorial to Express Private Thoughts | p. 236 |
| Three Memorials | p. 239 |
| Memorial Against Peace | p. 240 |
| Memorial Submitted by Ten Thousand Men | p. 242 |
| Development of Englightenment Thought | p. 245 |
| Learning from the West | p. 245 |
| Memorial on Current Tasks (1882) | p. 247 |
| Levels of Englightenment | p. 248 |
| Leaders of the 1884 Coup | p. 254 |
| Kapsin Reform Edict | p. 255 |
| Memorial | p. 256 |
| Memorial on Domestic Political Reforms | p. 258 |
| The Tonghak Uprisings and the Kabo Reforms | p. 261 |
| The 1894 Uprisings | p. 262 |
| A Call to Arms Issued at Paeksan | p. 263 |
| The Tonghak Peasant Army Manifesto at Mujang | p. 264 |
| Twelve Reforms Proclaimed by the Tonghak Overseer's Office | p. 265 |
| The Tonghak Proclamation to Soldiers and Civilians | p. 266 |
| Interrogation of Chon Pongjun, First Session (9 February 1895) | p. 267 |
| Reforms from Above, 1894-1895 | p. 272 |
| Kabo Reform Edicts | p. 273 |
| The King's Fourteen-Article Oath | p. 275 |
| The Independence Club and the People's Assembly | p. 277 |
| The Independent and the Independence Club | p. 278 |
| Inaugural Message of The Independent | p. 279 |
| Essay on the Korean Language | p. 280 |
| Essay on Working Only for Korea | p. 281 |
| Essay Against War | p. 282 |
| Demands for Democratic Reform | p. 282 |
| Memorial on National Salvation | p. 283 |
| Six Proposals Submitted by a Joint Assembly of Officials and People | p. 285 |
| People Are the Masters | p. 286 |
| Patriotic Movements | p. 289 |
| The Righteous Army Movement | p. 290 |
| An Appeal to Arms | p. 292 |
| Open Letter to Ito Hirobumi | p. 294 |
| The Patriotic Enlightenment Movement | p. 295 |
| The Spirit of Independence | p. 299 |
| Establishing Relations with Foreign Countries | p. 301 |
| Manifesto of the Korean Association for Self-Strengthening | p. 306 |
| Manifesto of the New People's Association of Korea | p. 307 |
| Essay on Education | p. 309 |
| Essay on Technological Innovation | p. 310 |
| We Wail Today | p. 312 |
| Essay on Korean Language and Letters | p. 313 |
| National Culture During the Colonial Period | p. 315 |
| The Study of Korean History | p. 316 |
| What Is History? What Shall We Study in Korean History? | p. 317 |
| New Challenges for a Nation with Old Culture | p. 319 |
| The Study of the Korean Language and Hangul | p. 321 |
| Inaugural Editorial for Hangul | p. 321 |
| Development of New Literature | p. 322 |
| "Does Spring Come to Stolen Fields?" | p. 324 |
| "When That Day Comes" | p. 325 |
| Developments in Religion | p. 326 |
| Inaugural Editorial in Biblical Korea | p. 326 |
| On Revitalizing Korean Buddhism | p. 329 |
| The Nationalist Movement | p. 333 |
| The March First Movement | p. 334 |
| Declaration of Independence | p. 336 |
| Provisional Constitution of the Korean Government in Exile | p. 339 |
| Provisional Constitution of the Korean Republic | p. 339 |
| Strategies for Regaining National Independence | p. 340 |
| The Korean Congress in the U.S.: An Appeal to America | p. 341 |
| Grand Strategy for Independence | p. 344 |
| Declaration of Korean Revolution | p. 346 |
| Declaration of the Korean Restoration Army | p. 349 |
| Demand for International Recognition | p. 350 |
| Provisional Government of the Korean Republic: Declaration of War on Japan (9 December 1941) | p. 350 |
| The Communist Movement | p. 352 |
| Radical Political Organizations | p. 353 |
| Manifesto of the Korean Communist Party in Shanghai | p. 354 |
| Slogans of the Korean Communist Party | p. 357 |
| Platform of Action of the Korean Communist Party | p. 359 |
| Communist Military Organizations | p. 360 |
| Declaration of the Korean Fatherland Restoration Association in Manchuria | p. 361 |
| Programs and Platforms of the North China Korean Independence League | p. 365 |
| Korea Since 1945 | p. 367 |
| Liberation and Division | p. 367 |
| Korean War | p. 369 |
| Politics and Economy in South Korea | p. 370 |
| North Korea | p. 373 |
| Two Koreas | p. 375 |
| Foreign Relations | p. 375 |
| Religions | p. 376 |
| Education | p. 380 |
| The Constitution of the Republic of Korea, 1948 | p. 382 |
| President Syngman Rhee's Inaugural Address, 15 August 1948 | p. 384 |
| Kim Ku (1876-1949) and Korean Nationalism | p. 387 |
| "My Wish" | p. 388 |
| Declaration of the Seoul National University Students Association, April 1960 | p. 393 |
| Pak Chonghui [Park Chung Hee] and Economic Development in South Korea | p. 395 |
| To Build a Nation | p. 396 |
| Kim Chiha and Protest Against Authoritarian Rule | p. 400 |
| "Five Bandits" | p. 401 |
| Ham Sokhon and the Suffering of Korea | p. 411 |
| The Meaning of Suffering | p. 412 |
| Songch'ol and the Great Debate in Korean Buddhism | p. 416 |
| Introduction to The Right Way of Son | p. 416 |
| Kim Ilsong [Kim Il Sung] and Chuch'e (Juch'e) Thought in North Korea | p. 419 |
| "On Eliminating Dogmatism and Formalism and Establishing Juch'e [Chuch'e] in Ideological Work" | p. 420 |
| Dialogues Between North and South Korea | p. 425 |
| North-South Joint Communique, Issued on 4 July 1972 | p. 426 |
| Agreement on Reconciliation, Nonaggression, and Exchanges and Cooperation Between the North and the South, Signed on 13 December 1991 and to Become Effective as of 19 February 1992 | p. 428 |
| Kim Taejung [Kim Dae Jung] and His Struggle for Freedom and Democracy in South Korea | p. 431 |
| Prison Writings | p. 432 |
| "My Country, My Aspiration" | p. 439 |
| Presidential Inaugural Address, February 1998 | p. 445 |
| Bibliography | p. 453 |
| Index | p. 459 |
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