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The Foresight of Dark Knowing: Chŏng Kam nok and Insurrectionary Prognostication in Pre-modern Korea. Translated, annotated, and with an introduction by John Jorgensen. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2018. vii, 451 pp. ISBN: 9780824875381 (cloth).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 August 2019

Joshua Van Lieu*
Affiliation:
Keimyung University
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Book Reviews—Northeast Asia
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2019 

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References

1 For a superlative consideration of the textual instabilities of the Chŏng Kam nok corpus and the problems they pose for Jorgensen's translation, see Sŭnghun, Han, “Sŏp'yŏng: Ch'oech'o ŭi Chŏng Kam nok yŏngyŏkpon kŭrigo Han'guk ŭi yeŏnsŏ yŏn'gu ŭi nanjedŭl” [Book review: The first English translation of the Chŏng Kam nok and the dilemmas of Korean prophetic text research], Han'guk munhwa 84 (2018): 433–53Google Scholar.

2 See T'aejin, Yang, Chŏng Kam nok: Minjok chonggyo ŭi mot'ae [Chŏng Kam nok: Matrix of a national religion] (Seoul: Yaenaru, 2013)Google Scholar.

3 Sŏnghun, Ko, “Chosŏn hugi minjung sasang kwa Chŏng Kam nok ŭi kinŭng” [The thought of the late Chosŏn masses and the function of the Chŏng Kam nok], Yŏksa minsokhak 47 (2015): 113–46Google Scholar.

4 For a recent consideration of this problem, see Haesŏn, Pak, “Singminji Chosŏn kwa Chŏng Kam nok” [Colonial Chosŏn and the Chŏng Kam nok], Ilbon kŭndaehak yŏn'gu 59 (2018): 293310Google Scholar.