Engraving Virtue: The Printing History of a Premodern Korean Moral Primer

Young Kyun Oh, Ph.D. (2005), University of Wisconsin-Madison, is Assistant Professor of Chinese and Sino-Korean at the School of International Letters and Cultures, Arizona State University. He has published several articles on Sino-Korean cultural and linguistic connections.

'This book is an invaluable companion to the history of the early and mid-Choso˘n period, which combines new insights of material culture studies with solid textual scholarship to present a convincing explanation for the specific format and popularity of a key text from this period.'Sem Vermeersch (Seoul National University), Seoul Journal of Korean Studies (2014) 27/1'This is a book that delivers more than it promises. The author is well read in comparative book history and appreciates that there is more to books than their printing history. (...) this book is an authoritative, subtle, and wholly satisfying exploration of an emblematic moral primer and Oh contextualises it superbly. It is book history at its best, and that means in the Korean context that it also tells us much about thesocial history of the Choso˘n dynasty.'Peter Kornicki (University of Cambridge), Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies (2014) 14/1