A Confucian autobiography of Tasan Chŏng Yagyong : selected poems, 1776-1836 / translated and annotated with a critical introduction by Wodi Hongjinwhi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chŏng, Yag-yong, 1762-1836, author.

Contributor:

Hongjinwhi, Wodi, translator, editor.

Series:

Language, writing and literary culture in the sinographic cosmopolis ; v. 6.

Language, writing and literary culture in the sinographic cosmopolis ; volume 6

Language:

English

Korean

Subjects (All):

Confucianism in literature.

Chŏng, Yag-yong, 1762-1836--Translations into English.

Chŏng, Yag-yong.

Chŏng, Yag-yong, 1762-1836--Poetry.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 203 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2024]

Language Note:

In Korean and English.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Confucian autobiography of Tasan Chŏng Yagyong

ISBN:

9789004540736

9004540733

OCLC:

1424946010

Publisher Number:

90101067490