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A Confucian Autobiography of Tasan Chŏng Yagyong: Selected Poems, 1776-1836
A Confucian Autobiography of Tasan Chŏng Yagyong: Selected Poems, 1776-1836
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Chŏng Yagyong (1762-1836), or simply Tasan, is a prolific poet and one of the most brilliant minds in Korean history but remains unknown as a person.This book introduces his life through his own auto-biographical poems translated into English for the first time.
Here we find him struggling between love of learning and exam hell, between aristocratic pride and economic hardship, between Catholic sympathies and Confucian heritage, and finally between two women.
Astonishingly open about himself for his time and class, this vivid portrait of his is a triumph of self-expression the likes of which we have not seen in premodern Korean literature.
Author: Wodi Hongjinwhi
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Brill
Published: 04/03/2024
Series: Language, Writing and Literary Culture in the Sinographic Co #6
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.29h x 6.14w x 0.71d
ISBN: 9789004540736
Here we find him struggling between love of learning and exam hell, between aristocratic pride and economic hardship, between Catholic sympathies and Confucian heritage, and finally between two women.
Astonishingly open about himself for his time and class, this vivid portrait of his is a triumph of self-expression the likes of which we have not seen in premodern Korean literature.
Author: Wodi Hongjinwhi
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Brill
Published: 04/03/2024
Series: Language, Writing and Literary Culture in the Sinographic Co #6
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.29h x 6.14w x 0.71d
ISBN: 9789004540736
