Min Yonghwan
The Selected Writings of a Late Choson Diplomat
Published on 1. January 2008
328 pages
978-1-55729-229-2 (ISBN)
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Min Yonghwan was a statesman and reformist of late Choson dynasty Korea. His suicide in protest of the 1905 Japanese-Korean Treaty of Protection made him a "powerful symbol of Korean independence" and led to his being regarded as a major patriot in Korea to this day. This book, however, celebrates Min's life as a diplomat through his own words. Min's detailed descriptions of his journeys to Russia to attend Czar Nicholas II's coronation and London for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee produce vivid images of the world at that time while also revealing Min's perceptions of it from his Confucian background. Readers will find the translation smooth and the texts engaging.
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12/2008
Institute of East Asian Studies University of California - B
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Michael Finch is a professor in the Department of Korean Studies at Keimyung University, Taegu, Korea.Education: B.A. University of Cambridge, M.A. Yonsei University, D.Phil. University of Oxford
Content
Translator's Preface - vii
1. Introduction - 1
2. One Policy out of a Thousand (Ch'onilch'aek) - 26
3. Sea, Sky, Autumn Voyage (Haech'onch'ubom - 65
4. Additional Notes of an Envoy to Europe (Sagusokch'o) - 187
5. Min Ch'ungjonggong's Veritable Record: The Facts of November 1905 - 269
Glossary - 278
Select Bibliography - 299
Index - 301
