Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Maps, Figures, and Tables vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Editor’s Note xiii
6. Introduction: Thinking Through Region 1
7. 1. Residence and Foreign Relations in the Peninsular Northeast During the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries 18
8. 2. Chosŏn-Qing Relations and the Society of P’yŏngan Province During the Late Chosŏn Period 37
9. 3. Regional Identities of Northern Literati: A Comparative Study of P’yŏngan and Hamgyŏng Provinces 62
10. 4. The Shadow of Anonymity: The Depiction of Northerners in Eighteenth-Century “Hearsay Accounts” (kimun) 93
11. 5. P’yŏngan Dialect and Regional Identity in Chosŏn Korea 116
12. 6. Dialect, Orthography, and Regional Identity: P’yŏngan Christians, Korean Spelling Reform, and Orthographic Fundamentalism 139
13. 7. From Periphery to a Transnational Frontier: Popular Movements in the Northwestern Provinces, 1896–1904 181
14. 8. Subversive Narratives: Hwang Sunwŏn’s P’yŏngan Stories 216
15. 9. The Missionary Presence in Northern Korea before WWII: Human Investment, Social Significance, and Historical Legacy 234
16. 10. The Northern Region of Korea as Portrayed in Russian Sources, 1860s–1913 254
17. 11. Images of the North in Occupied Korea, 1905–1945 295
18. Glossary 327
19. Bibliography 340
20. Contributors 378
21. Index 382