Foreword

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Preface

xvii

Acknowledgments

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Introduction

1

Previous Historiography and a Colonial Legacy

12

Colonial Legacy, Present Scholarship of Asian Studies, and Cultural Differences

20

Chinese Metaphor

22

Monsters' Heads and Foreheads

22

No Death

23

Name of Tung-i, Nine i, and Chosn Korea

23

Colonial Legacy and the I-jing

24

Origin of Ancient East Asian Millenarian Tradition

25

The Ancient Founders of China and Japan Were Koreans

25

The Chinese Emperor Burned Historical Accounts

30

The People's Republic of China's View of Ancient Korea Astronomical Chart, Lunar Calendar,

30

and Millenarian Dream

31

Korean-Chinese Characters, Millenarianism, and History

31

Millenarian Kingdom and Old Korean Characters or Chinese Characters

34

Nurhachi , the Qing, and the Taiping

37

Ancient Korean Millenarian Doctrine and the Root of Asian Millenarianism

38

Colonial Legacy and Freedom From Dependence on Material Documentations

40