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- Title
The Filial Daughter of Kwaksan: Finger Severing, Confucian Virtues, and Envoy Poetry in Early Chosŏn.
- Authors
Sixiang, Wang
- Abstract
The article analyzes the cultural history of a 15th-century Korean woman named Kim Sawŏl, who severed her finger and fed it to her mother as an act of Confucian filial devotion. Details outline how the act was both an extreme show of filial care but also a contradiction to Confucian teachings against self-harm. The poetic reception and spread of Kim Sawŏl's story through poetry in the Chosŏn Korea and Ming China is then reviewed, focusing on how this contradiction was remedied.
- Subjects
FILIAL piety; KIM Sawol; CONFUCIAN doctrines; CANNIBALISM; KOREAN poetry; CHINESE poetry; CHOSON dynasty, Korea, 1392-1910; MING dynasty, China, 1368-1644
- Publication
Seoul Journal of Korean Studies, 2012, Vol 25, Issue 2, p175
- ISSN
1225-0201
- Publication type
Article