New perspectives on early Korean art : from Silla to Koryŏ / edited by Youn-mi Kim.

Introduction / Youn-mi Kim -- 1. Iconography, technique, and context in Koryŏ buddhist paintings / Chung Woothak -- 2. Seeing maitreya: aspiration and vision in an image from early eighth-century Silla / Rhi Juhyung -- 3. (Dis)assembling the national canon: seventh-century " Esoteric" buddhist ritual, the Samguk yusa, and Sach'ŏnwang-sa / Youn-mi Kim -- 4. The development of Koryŏ porcelain and the Chinese ceramic industry in the tenth century / Jang Namwon -- 5. The gold jewelry of ancient Silla: syncretism of northern and southern Asian cultures / Joo Kyeongmi.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Volumes in the Early Korea Project Occasional Series focus on central issues related to the study of early Korean history and archaeology. This volume includes discussion of a variety of artworks, ranging from gold adornments found in Silla tombs to Koryŏ Buddhist paintings scattered in modern museum and private collections, that provide insight into the religious practices, aesthetics, cross-cultural exchanges, and everyday life of the people who made, used, appreciated, and circulated them. Based on thorough investigations of these artworks, their social context, and related texts, the five chapters in this book elucidate the cross-cultural interactions between the peoples and regions of Korea, China and South and Southeast Asia during the Silla to Koryŏ periods. The Early Korea Project Occasional Series is a publication of the Early Korea Project at the Korea Institute, Harvard University. -- from dust jacket.

State and society in middle and late Silla / edited by Richard D. McBride II.

Includes bibliographical references.

The constitution of the ruling elite in middle and late Silla /  Jeon Deog-jae --  Village society and the system of local governance in the unified Silla period : based on analysis of the Silla village documents /  Yoon Seon Tae --  Buddhism and the state in middle and late Silla /  Kim Sang-hyun --  Dynastic crisis and the ruling strata in Silla in the eighth and ninth centuries : political administration and bureaucracy /  Ha Il Sik --  Political and social factors in the fall of Silla /  Lee Kidong.

The present volume addresses several seminal questions associated with the middle and late periods of the Silla kingdom (ca. 668{u2013}935): What was the composition of Silla{u2019}s ruling elite? How did the state administer local areas? What was the relationship between the Buddhist church and the state? How did the government evolve over the course of the middle and late periods of Silla's rule? And what were the causes of Silla's demise?