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The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong

Author : JaHyun Kim Haboush
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520957299

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Lady Hyegyong's memoirs, which recount the chilling murder of her husband by his father, form one of the best known and most popular classics of Korean literature. From 1795 until 1805 Lady Hyegyong composed this masterpiece, depicting a court life Shakespearean in its pathos, drama, and grandeur. Presented in its social, cultural, and historical contexts, this first complete English translation opens a door into a world teeming with conflicting passions, political intrigue, and the daily preoccupations of a deeply intelligent and articulate woman. JaHyun Kim Haboush's accurate, fluid translation captures the intimate and expressive voice of this consummate storyteller. Reissued nearly twenty years after its initial publication with a new foreword by Dorothy Ko, The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong is a unique exploration of Korean selfhood and an extraordinary example of autobiography in the premodern era.

The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong

Author : Hyegyŏnggung Hong Ssi
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1996-04-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520200551

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Lady Hyegyong married Crown Prince Sado when they were both nine years old. The prince descended into violence and insanity in adulthood, and was killed by his father. Lady Hyegyong chose to live, and her son was later crowned king. She wrote the collected four memoirs in an attempt to weather the storms of political intrigue surrounding her. Contains introductory material, a glossary, and genealogical tables. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong

Author : Hyegyŏnggung Hong Ssi
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1996-04-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520200548

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Lady Hyegyong married Crown Prince Sado when they were both nine years old. The prince descended into violence and insanity in adulthood, and was killed by his father. Lady Hyegyong chose to live, and her son was later crowned king. She wrote the collected four memoirs in an attempt to weather the storms of political intrigue surrounding her. Contains introductory material, a glossary, and genealogical tables. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong

Author : Hyegyŏnggung Hong Ssi
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520280489

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The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong by Hyegyŏnggung Hong Ssi Pdf

Lady Hyegyong's memoirs, which recount the chilling murder of her husband by his father, form one of the best known and most popular classics of Korean literature. From 1795 until 1805 Lady Hyegyong composed this masterpiece, depicting a court life Shakespearean in its pathos, drama, and grandeur. Presented in its social, cultural, and historical contexts, this first complete English translation opens a door into a world teeming with conflicting passions, political intrigue, and the daily preoccupations of a deeply intelligent and articulate woman. JaHyun Kim Haboush's accurate, fluid translation captures the intimate and expressive voice of this consummate storyteller. Reissued nearly twenty years after its initial publication with a new foreword by Dorothy Ko, The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong is a unique exploration of Korean selfhood and an extraordinary example of autobiography in the premodern era.

Memoirs Of A Korean Queen

Author : Hong
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136138188

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First published in 1985. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

A Korean War Captive in Japan, 1597–1600

Author : JaHyun Kim Haboush,Kenneth R. Robinson
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231535113

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A Korean War Captive in Japan, 1597–1600 by JaHyun Kim Haboush,Kenneth R. Robinson Pdf

Kang Hang was a Korean scholar-official taken prisoner in 1597 by an invading Japanese army during the Imjin War of 1592–1598. While in captivity in Japan, Kang recorded his thoughts on human civilization, war, and the enemy's culture and society, acting in effect as a spy for his king. Arranged and printed in the seventeenth century as Kanyangnok, or The Record of a Shepherd, Kang's writings were extremely valuable to his government, offering new perspective on a society few Koreans had encountered in 150 years and new information on Japanese politics, culture, and military organization. In this complete, annotated translation of Kanyangnok, Kang ruminates on human behavior and the nature of loyalty during a time of war. A neo-Confucianist with a deep knowledge of Chinese philosophy and history, Kang drew a distinct line between the Confucian values of his world, which distinguished self, family, king, and country, and a foreign culture that practiced invasion and capture, and, in his view, was largely incapable of civilization. Relating the experiences of a former official who played an exceptional role in wartime and the rare voice of a Korean speaking plainly and insightfully on war and captivity, this volume enables a deeper appreciation of the phenomenon of war at home and abroad.

Women and Confucian Cultures in Premodern China, Korea, and Japan

Author : Dorothy Ko,JaHyun Kim Haboush,Joan R. Piggott
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Confucianism
ISBN : 9780520231054

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Women and Confucian Cultures in Premodern China, Korea, and Japan by Dorothy Ko,JaHyun Kim Haboush,Joan R. Piggott Pdf

This book rewrites the history of East Asia by rethinking the contentious relationship between "Confucianisms" and "women."

Who Ate Up All the Shinga?

Author : Wan-suh Park
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009-07-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780231520362

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Park Wan-suh is a best-selling and award-winning writer whose work has been widely translated and published throughout the world. Who Ate Up All the Shinga? is an extraordinary account of her experiences growing up during the Japanese occupation of Korea and the Korean War, a time of great oppression, deprivation, and social and political instability. Park Wan-suh was born in 1931 in a small village near Kaesong, a protected hamlet of no more than twenty families. Park was raised believing that "no matter how many hills and brooks you crossed, the whole world was Korea and everyone in it was Korean." But then the tendrils of the Japanese occupation, which had already worked their way through much of Korean society before her birth, began to encroach on Park's idyll, complicating her day-to-day life. With acerbic wit and brilliant insight, Park describes the characters and events that came to shape her young life, portraying the pervasive ways in which collaboration, assimilation, and resistance intertwined within the Korean social fabric before the outbreak of war. Most absorbing is Park's portrait of her mother, a sharp and resourceful widow who both resisted and conformed to stricture, becoming an enigmatic role model for her struggling daughter. Balancing period detail with universal themes, Park weaves a captivating tale that charms, moves, and wholly engrosses.

Unspoken Voices

Author : Jin-young Choi
Publisher : Homa & Sekey Books
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781931907064

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BOOK DESCRIPTION The stories in this collection are written by twelve Korean women writers whose experience, insight, and writing skill make them truly representative of Korean fiction at its best. "The Rooster" is a comical revelation of an old man who accepts the truth that Man and Nature revolve around the same immutable natural law. In "The Fragment," refugees who flee to Pusan during the Korean War suffer the unspeakable squalor and despair when jammed in a warehouse. "The Young Elm Tree" tells the story of a high school girl who falls in love with the son of her mother's new husband. What all these twelve writers share in common is a keen eye that penetrates into the lives of Korean women from the early part of the 20th century to the present. THE AUTHORS Authors included fall into two groups-those born during the Japanese occupation of Korea (1910-1945) and those born after 1945. All the eight authors in the first group experienced the Second World War in childhood and the Korean War as adults. They saw pain, hardship, and death, but they observed courage, resilience, humor, and love even in the most dire times. The four younger writers are active creators of works that have won top literary awards. Their fresh new look at life, their bold experimental style, and their refreshing voices are a reflection of their generation. THE TRANSLATOR Dr. Jin-Young Choi is Professor of English at Chung-Ang University in Seoul. She has translated two novels, numerous short stories and tales. Her Saturday columns in The Korea Herald were collected into one volume form One Woman's Way. All of her translated short stories were published in Korean Literature Today.

Lady of Chʻiao Kuo

Author : Laurence Yep
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0439164834

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Lady of Chʻiao Kuo by Laurence Yep Pdf

In 531 A.D., a fifteen-year-old princess of the Hsien tribe in southern China keeps a diary which describes her role as liaison between her own people and the local Chinese colonists, in times of both peace and war.

Is Eating People Wrong?

Author : Allan C. Hutchinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781139495271

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Is Eating People Wrong? by Allan C. Hutchinson Pdf

Great cases are those judicial decisions around which the common law develops. This book explores eight exemplary cases from the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia that show the law as a living, breathing and down-the-street experience. It explores the social circumstances in which the cases arose and the ordinary people whose stories influenced and shaped the law as well as the characters and institutions (lawyers, judges and courts) that did much of the heavy lifting. By examining the consequences and fallout of these decisions, the book depicts the common law as an experimental, dynamic, messy, productive, tantalizing and bottom-up process, thereby revealing the diverse and uncoordinated attempts by the courts to adapt the law to changing conditions and shifting demands. Great cases are one way to glimpse the workings of the common law as an untidy but stimulating exercise in human judgment and social accomplishment.

The Confucian Kingship in Korea

Author : JaHyun Kim Haboush
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0231066570

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The Confucian Kingship in Korea by JaHyun Kim Haboush Pdf

Originally published as A Heritage of Kings, this paperback edition contains a new preface reflecting new discoveries and updated scholarship in the field."--BOOK JACKET.

The Annals of King T’aejo

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 1057 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674281301

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Never before translated into English, this official history of the reign of King T’aejo—founder of Korea’s long, illustrious Chosŏn dynasty (1392–1910 CE)—is a unique resource for reconstructing life in late-fourteenth-century Korea. Its narrative of a ruler’s rise to power includes a wealth of detail not just about politics and war but also about religion, astronomy, and the arts. The military general Yi Sŏnggye, posthumously named T’aejo, assumed the throne in 1392. During his seven-year reign, T’aejo instituted reforms and established traditions that would carry down through the centuries. These included service to Korea’s overlord, China, and other practices reflecting China’s influence over the peninsula: creation of a bureaucracy based on civil service examinations, a shift from Buddhism to Confucianism, and official records of the deeds of kings, which in the Confucian tradition were an important means of educating succeeding generations. A remarkable compilation process for the sillok, or “veritable records,” was instituted to ensure the authority of the annals. Historiographers were present for every royal audience and wrote down each word that was uttered. They were strictly forbidden to divulge the contents of their daily drafts, however—even the king himself could not view the records with impunity. Choi Byonghyon’s translation of the first of Korea’s dynastic histories, The Annals of King T’aejo, includes an introduction and annotations.

Epistolary Korea

Author : JaHyun Kim Haboush
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231519595

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By expanding the definition of "epistle" to include any writing that addresses the intended receiver directly, JaHyun Kim Haboush introduces readers to the rich epistolary practice of Chos?n Korea. The Chos?n dynasty (1392-1910) produced an abundance of epistles, writings that mirror the genres of neighboring countries (especially China) while retaining their own specific historical trajectory. Written in both literary Chinese and vernacular Korean, the writings collected here range from royal public edicts to private letters, a fascinating array that blurs the line between classical and everyday language and the divisions between men and women. Haboush's selections also recast the relationship between epistolography and the concept of public and private space. Haboush groups her epistles according to where they were written and read: public letters, letters to colleagues and friends, social letters, and family letters. Then she arranges them according to occasion: letters on leaving home, deathbed letters, letters of fiction, and letters to the dead. She examines the mechanics of epistles, their communicative space, and their cultural and political meaning. With its wholly unique collection of materials, Epistolary Korea produces more than a vivid chronicle of pre- and early modern Korean life. It breaks new ground in establishing the terms of a distinct, non-European form of epistolography.

Riddley Walker

Author : Russell Hoban
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781408832240

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‘Walker is my name and I am the same. Riddley Walker. Walking my riddels where ever theyve took me and walking them now on this paper the same. There aint that many sir prizes in life if you take noatis of every thing. Every time will have its happenings out and every place the same. Thats why I finely come to writing all this down. Thinking on what the idear of us myt be. Thinking on that thing whats in us lorn and loan and oansome.’ Composed in an English which has never been spoken and laced with a storytelling tradition that predates the written word, RIDDLEY WALKER is the world waiting for us at the bitter end of the nuclear road. It is desolate, dangerous and harrowing, and a modern masterpiece.