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Min Yonghwan

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Min Yŏnghwan was a statesman and reformist of late Chosŏn dynasty Korea. His suicide in protest of the 1905 Japanese-Korean Treaty of Protection made him a "powerful symbol of Korean independence" ...
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Min Yŏnghwan was a statesman and reformist of late Chosŏn 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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Price: $32.00
Pages: 328
Publisher: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Imprint: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Series: Korea Research Monograph
Publication Date: 01 January 2008
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781557290915
Format: Paperback
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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

Translator's Preface – vii

1. Introduction – 1
2. One Policy out of a Thousand (Ch'ŏnilch'aek) – 26
3. Sea, Sky, Autumn Voyage (Haech'ŏnch'ubŏm – 65
4. Additional Notes of an Envoy to Europe (Sagusokch'o) – 187
5. Min Ch'ungjŏnggong's Veritable Record: The Facts of November 1905 – 269

Glossary – 278
Select Bibliography – 299
Index – 301