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<p>Korea has long had an underground insurrectionary literature. The best-known example of the genre is the <i>Chŏng Kam nok, </i>a collection of premodern texts predicting the overthrow of the Yi Dynasty (1392–1910) that in recent times has been invoked by a wide range of groups to support various causes and agendas: from leaders of Korea’s new religious movements formed during and after the Japanese occupation to spin doctors in the South Korean elections of the 1990s to proponents of an abort
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- Author
- John Jorgensen; Robert E. Buswell Jr.
- Publisher
- Hawaii, University of Hawaiʻi Press/Honolulu, Korean Classics Library
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780824875565
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Religion, History, Philosophy
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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