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Culling Archival Collections in the Koryŏ-Chosŏn Transition

Culling Archival Collections in the Koryŏ-Chosŏn Transition This article examines the inheritance and culling of government archival collections in the first few decades of the Chosŏn dynasty (1392–1910). After describing some features of Chosŏn archival practice, it provides an overview of Koryŏ (918–1392) archival institutions that the Chosŏn inherited before analyzing the various acts of culling focusing on a variety of different archival collections. By updating poorly maintained and damaged household, military, and slave registers, compiling old records for both practical (legal, military, or geomantic) and historical purposes, as well as by eliminating problematic materials, the early Chosŏn court symbolically proclaimed its rule, created new monuments of memory through the emphasis of certain records over others, and broke with the past through the destruction of documents that supported the old system. A related change in archival practice took place, as new a precedent in compiling the Veritable Records soon after the death of a king allowed for greater control over archival procedures and memory-making. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Korean Studies Duke University Press

Culling Archival Collections in the Koryŏ-Chosŏn Transition

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Abstract

This article examines the inheritance and culling of government archival collections in the first few decades of the Chosŏn dynasty (1392–1910). After describing some features of Chosŏn archival practice, it provides an overview of Koryŏ (918–1392) archival institutions that the Chosŏn inherited before analyzing the various acts of culling focusing on a variety of different archival collections. By updating poorly maintained and damaged household, military, and slave registers, compiling old records for both practical (legal, military, or geomantic) and historical purposes, as well as by eliminating problematic materials, the early Chosŏn court symbolically proclaimed its rule, created new monuments of memory through the emphasis of certain records over others, and broke with the past through the destruction of documents that supported the old system. A related change in archival practice took place, as new a precedent in compiling the Veritable Records soon after the death of a king allowed for greater control over archival procedures and memory-making.

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Journal of Korean Studies – Duke University Press

Published: Oct 1, 2019

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    Teuscher, Simon
  • Archival Traditions in Korean History: From Medieval Practice to the Contemporary Public Records Management Act
    Youn, Eunha
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    Yi, Hanhŭi
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    Yi, Hyŏngjung
  • A World-Class Archival Achievement: The People’s Republic of China Archivists’ Success in Opening the Ming-Qing Central-Government Archives, 1949–1998
    Bartlett, Beatrice S.
  • Introduction
    Blair, Ann Milligan, Jennifer
  • The Civilizing Project in Medieval Korea: Neo-Classicism, Nativism, and Figurations of Power
    Cha, Joohang
  • The veritable record of King Chŏngjong reign
  • The Establishment of the Early Chosŏn Political System
    Chung, Doo Hee Chung, Man Jo et al Duncan, John B. et al
  • ‘Tenacious Letters’: Archives and Memory in the Middle Ages
    Clanchy, M. T.
  • Originals and Cartularies: The Organization of Archival Memory (Ninth–Eleventh Centuries)
    Declercq, Georges Heidecker, Karl
  • Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression
    Derrida, Jacques
  • Ordering the Archive in Early Modern Venice (1400–1650)
    De Vivo, Filippo
  • The History of European Archives and the Development of the Archival Profession in Europe
    Duchein, Michel
  • Configuring European Archives: Spaces, Materials and Practices in the Differentiation of Repositories from the Late Middle Ages to 1700
    Head, Randolph C.
  • Archival Temples, Archival Prisons: Modes of Power and Protection
    Ketelaar, Eric
  • Muniments and Monuments: The Dawn of Archives as Cultural Patrimony
    Ketelaar, Eric
  • Records Out and Archives In: Early Modern Cities as Creators of Records and as Communities of Archives
    Ketelaar, Eric
  • “Chosŏnjo Naeŭiwŏn ŭi ŭisŏ p’yŏn’gan mit ŭihak charyosil e kwanhan yŏn’gu” [A study on the publication of medical books and the medical library of Naeūiwŏn in the Chosŏn dynasty]
    Kim, Chunggwŏn
  • “Chosŏn sidae ŭi munsŏ wa kirok ŭi wisang: Sach’o, sijŏnggi e taehan chaegŏmt’o” [The status of Chosŏn dynasty documents and records: A reexamination of the sach’o and sijŏnggi]
    Kim, Hyŏnyŏng
  • Chosŏn chŏn’gi Sillok p’yŏnch’an e taehan sahaksachŏk koch’al” [A historiographical examination of the compilation of the Sillok in early Chosŏn]
    Kim, Kyŏngsu
  • Kabo kaehyŏk chŏnhu chibang kongmunsŏ kwalli ŭi pyŏnhwa” [Changes in the administration of local government documents at the time of the Kabo reforms]
    Kim, T’aeung
  • Kagakko ko” [Research on the Kagakko]
    Nam, Kwŏnhŭi
  • Koryŏ sidae kirongmul ŭi kyoryu wa pogwan chedo” [Exchange of records and the archives system in Koryo dynasty]
    Nam, Kwŏnhŭi Ok, Yŏngjŏng
  • “Chosŏn chŏn’gi kirok kwalli ch’egye ŭi ihae” [Understanding early Chosŏn’s system of record management]
    O, Hangnyŏng
  • The Meaning of Ritual Practices in the Compilation of Chosŏn Sillok
    O, Hangnyŏng Chung, Man Jo et al Duncan, John B. et al
  • “Sillok: Tŭngnok ŭi wigye” [The Sillok: The status of bound records]
    O, Hangnyŏng
  • Cortes’s Notary: The Symbolic Power of Records
    O’Toole, James
  • Kyŏngguk taejŏn ŭi kirok kwalli kyujŏng” [Regulations for managing records in the Kyŏngguk taejŏn]
    Paek, Sŏnhye
  • Records and Record-Keeping in Nineteenth-Century Korea
    Palais, James B.
  • Liberty, Equality, Posterity? Some Archival Lessons from the Case of the French Revolution
    Panitch, Judith
  • Some Aspects of Archival Development since the French Revolution
    Posner, Ernst
  • Koryŏguksa ŭi p’yŏnch’an naeyong kwa saron” [The contents of compilation and historical comments of the Koryŏguksa]
    Pyŏn, T’aesŏp
  • “Chosŏn ch’ogi ŭigwe p’yŏnch’an ŭi paegyŏng kwa ŭiŭi” [The background and significance of early Chosŏn ŭigwe compilation]
    Sin, Myŏngho
  • Chosŏn wangjo sillok ŭi p’yŏnch’an kwa pogwan” [The compilation and storage of the Chosŏn dynasty’s Veritable Records]
    Sin, Sŏkho
  • How to Manage an Information State: Jean-Baptiste Colbert’s Archives and the Education of His Son
    Soll, Jacob
  • Document Collections, Mobilized Regulations, and the Making of Customary Law at the End of the Middle Ages
    Teuscher, Simon
  • Archival Traditions in Korean History: From Medieval Practice to the Contemporary Public Records Management Act
    Youn, Eunha
  • Chosŏn sidae kirongmul ŭi saengsan mit ch’ŏri kwajŏng kwa pojon” [The production, processing, and preservation of material records in the Chosŏn dynasty]
    Yi, Hanhŭi
  • Chosŏn tŭngnok kirok ŭi yuhyŏng kwa kŭ kwalli ch’egye e kwanhan yŏn’gu” [Research on the types and management system of tŭngnok in the Chosŏn dynasty]
    Yi, Hyŏngjung