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Archives, Archival Practices, and the Writing of History in Premodern Korea: An Introduction

Archives, Archival Practices, and the Writing of History in Premodern Korea: An Introduction Archives, Archival Practices, and the Writing of History in Premodern Korea: An Introduction Jungwon Kim On the twenty-eighth day of the tenth month in 1760, a magistrate of Yesan Lesser Prefecture (hyŏn 縣) submitted a report to the Provincial Governor’sOffice (su- nyŏng 巡營) about a text titled Comprehensive Summary of Burial Days (Changil t’ongyo 葬日通要). The office forwarded an order from the Bureau of Astronomy (Kwansanggam 觀象監) to locate the text, and the Yesan magistrate replied as follows: “[Though we] thoroughly searched Buddhist temples, [local] Confucian academies, and some private houses within the area [under my supervision] by all means, it was not found.” Comprehensive Summary of Burial Days had been compiled at the order of King T’aejong (r. 1400–18), who wished to rectify ex- isting misbelief and malpractice concerning the selection of auspicious funeral dates on the part of the Chosŏn populace. The project had been completed in the first year of King Sejong’s reign (r. 1418–50), but it seems that the text was lost or forgotten for many years. Scarcely any information is available on this text in existing sources, save for a few entries in the Veritable Records of King Sejong (Sejong sillok 世宗實錄): neither the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Korean Studies Duke University Press

Archives, Archival Practices, and the Writing of History in Premodern Korea: An Introduction

Kim, Jungwon; Kim, Jungwon
Journal of Korean Studies , Volume 24 (2) – Oct 1, 2019
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Archives, Archival Practices, and the Writing of History in Premodern Korea: An Introduction Jungwon Kim On the twenty-eighth day of the tenth month in 1760, a magistrate of Yesan Lesser Prefecture (hyŏn 縣) submitted a report to the Provincial Governor’sOffice (su- nyŏng 巡營) about a text titled Comprehensive Summary of Burial Days (Changil t’ongyo 葬日通要). The office forwarded an order from the Bureau of Astronomy (Kwansanggam 觀象監) to locate the text, and the Yesan magistrate replied as follows: “[Though we] thoroughly searched Buddhist temples, [local] Confucian academies, and some private houses within the area [under my supervision] by all means, it was not found.” Comprehensive Summary of Burial Days had been compiled at the order of King T’aejong (r. 1400–18), who wished to rectify ex- isting misbelief and malpractice concerning the selection of auspicious funeral dates on the part of the Chosŏn populace. The project had been completed in the first year of King Sejong’s reign (r. 1418–50), but it seems that the text was lost or forgotten for many years. Scarcely any information is available on this text in existing sources, save for a few entries in the Veritable Records of King Sejong (Sejong sillok 世宗實錄): neither the

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Published: Oct 1, 2019

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    Cha, Javier
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    Cook, Terry
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    Cook, Terry
  • Afterword: In and Out of the Archives
    Gilliland, Anne
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    Ketelaar, Eric
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    Kim, Hŏnyŏng
  • Theories of the Archive from across the Disciplines
    Manoff, Marlene
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    Oh, Hang Nyeong Chung, Man Jo et al Duncan, John B.
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    Yi, Hyŏngjung
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    Youn, Eunha