Wrongful Deaths [EPUB ebook] 
Selected Inquest Records from Nineteenth-Century Korea

Acknowledgments
Translators’ Notes
Map of Nineteenth-century Korea
Introduction Choson Korea in Its Last Century
Case 1 An Adulterous Widower Meets a Violent Death
Yang Hang-nyon (P’yongyang, P’yongan Province, 1866)
Case 2 A Family Activist Confronts a Local Magnate
Ms. Pak (Yongin, Kyonggi Province, Late Eighteenth Century)
Case 3 A Defiant Slave Challenges His Master with Death
Yi Pong-dol (Anui, Kyongsang Province, 1842)
Case 4 Two Widows Fight
Madam Chang and Ms. Un (Yech’on, Kyongsang Province, 1842)
Case 5 A Heartless Wet Nurse Abuses an Infant
Mun Chong-ji (Chunghwa, P’yongan Province, 1866)
Case 6 A Widower Seeks Private Settlement
Ms. Chong (Yongch’on, Kyongsang Province, 1889)
Case 7 Adultery Leads to Murder
Ms. Paek (Anak, Hwanghae Province, 1897)
Case 8 An Illegal Burial Begets a Son but Kills a Relative
Kim Kap-san (Hoeyang, Kangwŏn Province, 1899)
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

Sun Joo Kim is the Harvard-Yenching Professor of Korean History at Harvard University. Jungwon Kim is assistant professor of Korean history at Columbia University.