Corea, the Hermit Nation
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ISBN13: 9780217934077
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV. SAM-HAN, OR SOUTHERN COREA. At the time of the suppression of Cho-sen and the incorporation of its territory with the Chinese Empire, B.c. 107, all Corea F u Y u Map of Sam-han in Southern Corea. south of the Ta-tong River was divided into three han, or geographical divisions. Their exact boundaries are uncertain, but their general topography may be learned from the map. MA-HAN AND BEN-HAN. This little country included fifty-four tribes or clans, each one independent of the other, and living under a sort of patriarchal government . The larger tribes are said to have been composed of ten thousand, and the smaller of a thousand, families each. Round numbers, however, in ancient records are worth little for critical purposes. South of the Ma-han was the Ben-han, in which were twelve tribes, having the same manners and customs as the Ma-han, and speaking a different yet kindred dialect. One of these clans formed the little kingdom of Amium, from which came the first visit of Coreans recorded in the Japanese annals. After the overthrow of his family and kingdom by the traitor Wei-man, Kijun, the king of old Cho-sen escaped to the sea and fled south toward the archipelago. He had wjtifhim a number of his faithful adherents, their wives and children. He landed among one of the clans of Ma-han, composed of Chinese refugees, who, not wishing to live under the Han emperors, had crossed the Yellow Sea. On account of their numbering, originally, one hundred families, they called themselves Hiaksai . Either by conquest or invitation Kijun soon became their king. Glimpses of the manner of life of these early people are given by a Chinese writer. The Ma-han people were agricultural, dwelling in villages, but neither driving nor riding oxen or horses, mos...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217934077 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217934072 |
| Weight | 1.39 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.96 In |
| List Price | $27.55 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 430 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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