The Foresight of Dark Knowing - Chong Kam Nok and Insurrectionary Prognostication in Pre-modern Korea

Korea has long had an underground insurrectionary literature. The best-known example of the genre is the Chng Kam nok, a collection of premodern texts predicting the overthrow of the Yi Dynasty. In his introduction to this first English translation, John Jorgensen notes that the work employs forms or codes of political prediction allied with Chinese geomancy but in a combination unique to Korea.

About the author

John Jorgensen is senior research fellow at the China Studies Research Centre, La Trobe University.

Summary

Korea has long had an underground insurrectionary literature. The best-known example of the genre is the Chng Kam nok, a collection of premodern texts predicting the overthrow of the Yi Dynasty. In his introduction to this first English translation, John Jorgensen notes that the work employs forms or codes of political prediction allied with Chinese geomancy but in a combination unique to Korea.

Product details

• Authors: John Jorgensen
• Assisted by: Robert E Buswell (Editor), Robert E. Buswell (Editor)
• Publisher: University of hawaii press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2018
• EAN: 9780824875381
• ISBN: 978-0-8248-7538-1
• No. of pages: 462
• Series: Korean Classics Library: Philo; Korean Classics Library: Philosophy and Religion; Korean Classics Library: Philo
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous