Marginality and Subversion in Korea: The Hong Kyongnae Rebellion of 1812

Description: In this first extensive English-language study of any of the major nineteenth-century rebellions in Korea, Kim argues that it was neither desperate peasants nor ambitious new economic forces but rather traditional local elites who plotted and carried out the rebellion of 1812.Sun Joo Kim is associate professor of Korean history at Harvard University

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"...An admirable example of a persuasive multidimensional analysis of a major historical event. Important not only for Korea historians, but also for comparativists of rebellions in the context of larger social change in world history, I expect this well-researched book to remain a classic for many years to come."