Min Yŏng-hwan : a political biography
著者
書誌事項
Min Yŏng-hwan : a political biography
（Hawaiʿi studies on Korea）
University of Hawaiʿi Press : Center for Korean Studies, University of Hawaiʿi, c2002
- : cloth
大学図書館所蔵 全3件
注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-243) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
The closing years of the Choson dynasty have received considerable attention from historians of Korea. Nevertheless, surprisingly few biographical studies have been written on the major Korean political figures of that time. The diplomat and scholar-official Min Yong-hwan (1861-1905), described by one contemporary Western observer as ""undoubtably the first Korean after the emperor,"" is considered to be the foremost patriot of Korea's Taehan era (1897-1910). This pioneering study of Min Yong-hwan is long overdue and provides us with a new perspective on a period of Korean history that still casts its shadow over the region today. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Min left behind a substantial collection of written works, including political essays and travel diaries. Based on these important documents and other primary source materials from Korea and the West, Michael Finch's study traces Min's life and political development from 1861 to 1905. It contributes substantially to our understanding of this period by looking beyond the established view of Korea as being polarized between reformists and reactionaries in the late Choson era. In doing so, it provides us with deeper insight into the full range of responses of the late Choson leadership to the dual challenges of internal stagnation and external intervention at the juncture of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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