Sun Joo Kim is a professor of Korean history at Harvard University. She is the author of Marginality and Subversion in Korea. The other contributors are Mark E. Caprio, Donald N. Clark, Bruce Fulton, Jang Yoo-seung, Jung Min, German Kim, Ross King, Kwon Naehyun, Yumi Moon, Paek Doo-Hyeon, and Kenneth R. Robinson.

"Sheds light on many aspects of Korean history and culture that have long been ignored. . . . opens doors to further scholarship not only on northern Korean but also on other regions . . . a path-breaking addition to the field of Korean studies."

• Maps, Figures, and Tables AcknowledgmentsEditor’s Note Introduction: Thinking Through Region Sun Joo Kim1. Residence and Foreign Relation in the Peninsular Northeast During the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries / Kenneth R. Robinson2. Choson-Qing Relations and the Society of P’yongan Province During the Late Choson Period / Kwon Naehyun3. Regional Identities of Northern Literati: A Comparative Study of P’yongan and Hamgyong Provinces / Jan Yoo-Seung4. The Shadow of Anonymity: The Depiction of Northerners in Eighteenth-Century “Hearsay Accounts” (kimun) / Jung Min5. P’yongan Dialect and Regional Identity in Choson Korea / Paek Doo-Hyeon6. Dialect, Orthography, and Regional Identity: P’yongan Christians, Korean Spelling Reform, and Orthographic Fundamentalism / Ross King7. From Periphery to a Transnational Frontier: Popular Movements in the Northwestern Provinces, 1896-1904 / Yumi Moon8. Subversive Narratives: Hwang Sunwon’s P’yongan Stories / Bruce Fulton9. The Missionary Presence in Northern Korea before WWII: Human Investment, Social Significance, and Historical Legacy / Donald N. Clark10. The Northern Region of Korea as Portrayed in Russian Sources, 1860s-1913 / German King and Ross King11. Images of the North in Occupied Korea, 1905-1945 / Mark E. CaprioGlossaryBibliography Contributors Index Maps, Figures, and TablesMAPSKorea at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 2.1 Road Used by Choson Envoys to Visit the Qing 11.1 Birth Rates 11.2 Literacy Rates FIGURES2.1 Illustration of Choson Envoy to Qing 5.1 Dialect and Regional Identity 9.1 Missionary Compound in P’yongyang TABLES2.1 Qing Embassies to Choson 2.2 Choson Embassy’s Sojourn in Days by Region 2.3 Cultivated Land and Land Tax Revenues by Province in 1807 – 2.4 Silver Presented to Qing Envoys and Interpreters in the Late Eighteenth Century by Province, in Yang2.5 Central and Provincial Government Silver Loans to Choson Embassies, in Yang 2.6 Shenyang P’alp’o Trade Privileges by Province, in Number of P’alp’o Granted 2.7 Products Traded at the Chunggang Market, by Province 5.1 Editions of the Iryun haengsilto 5.2 Word Comparison Among Three Editions 5.3 Comparison Between the Yongyong and Haeyong Editions 5.4 Editions of the Nogoltae 5.5 Editions of the Yombul pogwonmun 5.6 Word Comparison Between the Tonghwa Temple and Yongmun Temple Editions 5.7 Editions of the Kyongminp’yon6.1 Contemporary Standard Korea and P’yongan Dialects 9.1 Korean Christian Mission Statistics (as of June 30) 1908

Sun Joo Kim is a professor of Korean history at Harvard University. She is the author of Marginality and Subversion in Korea. The other contributors are Mark E. Caprio, Donald N. Clark, Bruce Fulton, Jang Yoo-seung, Jung Min, German Kim, Ross King, Kwon Naehyun, Yumi Moon, Paek Doo-Hyeon, and Kenneth R. Robinson.

"Sheds light on many aspects of Korean history and culture that have long been ignored. . . . opens doors to further scholarship not only on northern Korean but also on other regions . . . a path-breaking addition to the field of Korean studies."

• Maps, Figures, and Tables AcknowledgmentsEditor’s Note Introduction: Thinking Through Region Sun Joo Kim1. Residence and Foreign Relation in the Peninsular Northeast During the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries / Kenneth R. Robinson2. Choson-Qing Relations and the Society of P’yongan Province During the Late Choson Period / Kwon Naehyun3. Regional Identities of Northern Literati: A Comparative Study of P’yongan and Hamgyong Provinces / Jan Yoo-Seung4. The Shadow of Anonymity: The Depiction of Northerners in Eighteenth-Century “Hearsay Accounts” (kimun) / Jung Min5. P’yongan Dialect and Regional Identity in Choson Korea / Paek Doo-Hyeon6. Dialect, Orthography, and Regional Identity: P’yongan Christians, Korean Spelling Reform, and Orthographic Fundamentalism / Ross King7. From Periphery to a Transnational Frontier: Popular Movements in the Northwestern Provinces, 1896-1904 / Yumi Moon8. Subversive Narratives: Hwang Sunwon’s P’yongan Stories / Bruce Fulton9. The Missionary Presence in Northern Korea before WWII: Human Investment, Social Significance, and Historical Legacy / Donald N. Clark10. The Northern Region of Korea as Portrayed in Russian Sources, 1860s-1913 / German King and Ross King11. Images of the North in Occupied Korea, 1905-1945 / Mark E. CaprioGlossaryBibliography Contributors Index Maps, Figures, and TablesMAPSKorea at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 2.1 Road Used by Choson Envoys to Visit the Qing 11.1 Birth Rates 11.2 Literacy Rates FIGURES2.1 Illustration of Choson Envoy to Qing 5.1 Dialect and Regional Identity 9.1 Missionary Compound in P’yongyang TABLES2.1 Qing Embassies to Choson 2.2 Choson Embassy’s Sojourn in Days by Region 2.3 Cultivated Land and Land Tax Revenues by Province in 1807 – 2.4 Silver Presented to Qing Envoys and Interpreters in the Late Eighteenth Century by Province, in Yang2.5 Central and Provincial Government Silver Loans to Choson Embassies, in Yang 2.6 Shenyang P’alp’o Trade Privileges by Province, in Number of P’alp’o Granted 2.7 Products Traded at the Chunggang Market, by Province 5.1 Editions of the Iryun haengsilto 5.2 Word Comparison Among Three Editions 5.3 Comparison Between the Yongyong and Haeyong Editions 5.4 Editions of the Nogoltae 5.5 Editions of the Yombul pogwonmun 5.6 Word Comparison Between the Tonghwa Temple and Yongmun Temple Editions 5.7 Editions of the Kyongminp’yon6.1 Contemporary Standard Korea and P’yongan Dialects 9.1 Korean Christian Mission Statistics (as of June 30) 1908

Sun Joo Kim is a professor of Korean history at Harvard University. She is the author of Marginality and Subversion in Korea. The other contributors are Mark E. Caprio, Donald N. Clark, Bruce Fulton, Jang Yoo-seung, Jung Min, German Kim, Ross King, Kwon Naehyun, Yumi Moon, Paek Doo-Hyeon, and Kenneth R. Robinson.

"Sheds light on many aspects of Korean history and culture that have long been ignored. . . . opens doors to further scholarship not only on northern Korean but also on other regions . . . a path-breaking addition to the field of Korean studies."

• Maps, Figures, and Tables AcknowledgmentsEditor’s Note Introduction: Thinking Through Region Sun Joo Kim1. Residence and Foreign Relation in the Peninsular Northeast During the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries / Kenneth R. Robinson2. Choson-Qing Relations and the Society of P’yongan Province During the Late Choson Period / Kwon Naehyun3. Regional Identities of Northern Literati: A Comparative Study of P’yongan and Hamgyong Provinces / Jan Yoo-Seung4. The Shadow of Anonymity: The Depiction of Northerners in Eighteenth-Century “Hearsay Accounts” (kimun) / Jung Min5. P’yongan Dialect and Regional Identity in Choson Korea / Paek Doo-Hyeon6. Dialect, Orthography, and Regional Identity: P’yongan Christians, Korean Spelling Reform, and Orthographic Fundamentalism / Ross King7. From Periphery to a Transnational Frontier: Popular Movements in the Northwestern Provinces, 1896-1904 / Yumi Moon8. Subversive Narratives: Hwang Sunwon’s P’yongan Stories / Bruce Fulton9. The Missionary Presence in Northern Korea before WWII: Human Investment, Social Significance, and Historical Legacy / Donald N. Clark10. The Northern Region of Korea as Portrayed in Russian Sources, 1860s-1913 / German King and Ross King11. Images of the North in Occupied Korea, 1905-1945 / Mark E. CaprioGlossaryBibliography Contributors Index Maps, Figures, and TablesMAPSKorea at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 2.1 Road Used by Choson Envoys to Visit the Qing 11.1 Birth Rates 11.2 Literacy Rates FIGURES2.1 Illustration of Choson Envoy to Qing 5.1 Dialect and Regional Identity 9.1 Missionary Compound in P’yongyang TABLES2.1 Qing Embassies to Choson 2.2 Choson Embassy’s Sojourn in Days by Region 2.3 Cultivated Land and Land Tax Revenues by Province in 1807 – 2.4 Silver Presented to Qing Envoys and Interpreters in the Late Eighteenth Century by Province, in Yang2.5 Central and Provincial Government Silver Loans to Choson Embassies, in Yang 2.6 Shenyang P’alp’o Trade Privileges by Province, in Number of P’alp’o Granted 2.7 Products Traded at the Chunggang Market, by Province 5.1 Editions of the Iryun haengsilto 5.2 Word Comparison Among Three Editions 5.3 Comparison Between the Yongyong and Haeyong Editions 5.4 Editions of the Nogoltae 5.5 Editions of the Yombul pogwonmun 5.6 Word Comparison Between the Tonghwa Temple and Yongmun Temple Editions 5.7 Editions of the Kyongminp’yon6.1 Contemporary Standard Korea and P’yongan Dialects 9.1 Korean Christian Mission Statistics (as of June 30) 1908