Korean Classics Library: Historical Materials – serie
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Vestiges of the Three Kingdoms of Ancient Korea
A Translation of the Samguk Yusa
Inbunden, 2025
932 kr
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Vestiges of the Three Kingdoms of Ancient Korea (Samguk yusa) is the first annotated English translation of one of the most important premodern Korean historical texts. One of only two surviving works on the Three Kingdoms period (57 BCE–668) and Greater Silla (668–936), the Samguk yusa is a rich …
Chinese Traveler in Medieval Korea
Xu Jing’s Illustrated Account of the Xuanhe Embassy to Kory?
Av Sem Vermeersch, Robert E. Buswell m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
754 kr
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The king and ministers, superior and inferior, move with ritual and refinement. When the king goes on an inspection tour, everyone has the correct ceremonial attributes and the divine flag [troops] gallop in front while armored soldiers block the road. The soldiers of the Six Divisions all hold …
Imperatives of Culture
Selected Essays on Korean History, Literature, and Society from the Japanese Colonial Era
Av Christopher P. Hanscom, Walter K. Lew m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
524 kr
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This volume contains translations—many appearing for the first time in the English language—of major literary, critical, and historical essays from the colonial period (1910–1945) in Korea. Considered representative of the debates among and between Korean and Japanese thinkers of the colonial …
Korea's Premier Collection of Classical Literature
Selections from Sŏ Kŏjŏng's Tongmunsŏn
Av John B Duncan, Namhee Lee m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
890 kr
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This is the first book in English to offer an extensive introduction to the Tongmunsŏn (Selections of Refined Literature of Korea)—the largest and most important Korean literary collection created prior to the twentieth century—as well as translations of essays from key chapters. The Tongmunsŏn was …
Korean Scholar's Rude Awakening in Qing China
Pak Chega's Discourse on Northern Learning
Av Pak Chega, John B Duncan m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
797 kr
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Two years after Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations was published in 1776, Pak Chega's (1750–1805) Discourse on Northern Learning appeared on the opposite corner of the globe. Both books presented notions of wealth and the economy for critical review: the former caused a stir across Europe, the latter …
Tales of the Strange by a Korean Confucian Monk
Kŭmo Sinhwa by Kim Sisŭp
Av Dennis Wuerthner, Robert E. Buswell m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
890 kr
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One of the most important and celebrated works of premodern Korean prose fiction, Kŭmo sinhwa (New Tales of the Golden Turtle) is a collection of five tales of the strange artfully written in literary Chinese by Kim Sisŭp (1435-1493). Kim was a major intellectual and poet of the early Chosŏn …
Record of the Seasonal Customs of Korea
Tongguk Sesigi by Toae Hong Sŏk-mo
Av Robert E. Buswell, Jr., Robert E. Buswell
Inbunden, 2021
890 kr
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Record of the Seasonal Customs of Korea (Tongguk sesigi) is one of the most important primary sources for anyone interested in traditional Korean cultural and social practices. The manuscript was completed in 1849 by Toae Hong Sŏk-mo, a wealthy poet and scholar from an influential family. Toae, …
Poems and Stories for Overcoming Idleness
P’ahan Chip by Yi Illo
Av Robert E. Buswell Jr., Robert E. Buswell
Inbunden, 2024
971 kr
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Poems and Stories for Overcoming Idleness is the first complete translation in any Western language of P’ahan chip, the earliest Korean work of sihwa (C. shihua; "remarks on poetry") and one of the oldest extant Korean sources. The collection was written and compiled by Yi Illo (1152–1220) during …
Korean Relations with Japan and Ryūkyū in the Early Chosŏn Period
A Translation of Sin Sukchu’s Haedong Chegukki
Av Sin Sukchu, Robert E. Buswell
Inbunden, 2026
888 kr
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Between 1392 and 1592—a period bounded by Japanese pirate raids along the Korean coast and Japan’s invasion of Chosŏn Korea—more than 4,600 Japanese trade missions were recorded by the Chosŏn government. In response to these missions, the famous official Sin Sukchu compiled regulations, detailed …
Not Everything Unfolds As Anticipated
Selections from Yi Kyubo’s Tongguk Yi Sangguk Chip
Inbunden, 2026
927 kr
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Yi Kyubo (1168–1241) was the foremost writer and poet of the Koryŏ dynasty (918–1392). Not Everything Unfolds as Anticipated is a miscellany of work from his Tongguk Yi Sangguk chip, a collection containing more than two thousand texts and considered the earliest substantial oeuvre of a Koryŏ …
Yu Kilchun's Observations on a Journey to the West
The Earliest Korean Account of Life in the Occident
Av John B. Duncan, Frederick M. Ranallo-Higgins
Inbunden, 2027
930 kr
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Yu Kilchun (1856–1914) was among a group of young Chosŏn-dynasty officials who visited Japan in the late 1800s and were impressed by the changes Japan had undergone since opening its ports decades earlier. Yu subsequently traveled to the United States as part of Korea’s first diplomatic mission and …
Encyclopedia of Daily Life
A Woman's Guide to Living in Late-Chosŏn Korea
Av Kil Cha, Michael J. Pettid m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
797 kr
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This volume is a fully annotated translation of an early nineteenth-century encyclopedia, the Kyuhap ch'ongsŏ (The Encyclopedia of Daily Life). Written by Lady Yi (1759-1824) as a household management aid for her daughters and daughters-in-law, the work is a treasure trove of information on how …
