Acknowledgements
Stylistic Conventions
Chapter 1. Introduction: The Dowager’s Mandate
Chapter 2. Approaching Kingship (1590–1608)
Chapter 3. The Royal Family, the King, and the Bureaucracy: Separated Powers? (1608–1618)
Chapter 4. The King, the Emperor, and the War in Manchuria
Chapter 5. Queen Dowager Inmok’s Restoration
Chapter 6. The Grace of Receiving the Country
Chapter 7. Epilogue: Notes on Chosŏn’s Constitutional Framework
Bibliography
Index