- Early works to 1800, Description and travel, Travel, Diaries
This is the first translation into English of the eighteenth-century Korean masterpiece entitled Yorha ilgi (The Jehol Diary') by Pak Chiwon (1737-1805). The original text was written in classical Chinese and is a notoriously difficult work to translate.
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Cool, classical in form, grave and earnest.
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- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Chi-wŏn Pak
- First published
- 2010
- Pages
- 208
- Publisher
- Global Oriental
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781906876173
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