Böcker i Korean Classics Library: Historical Materials-serien

One of the most important primary sources for anyone interested in traditional Korean cultural and social practices. The manuscript was completed in 1849 by Toae Hong Sk-mo, a wealthy poet and scholar from an influential family.

A fully annotated translation of an early nineteenth-century encyclopedia, the Kyuhap ch'ongs. Written by Lady Yi (1759-1824) as a household management aid for her daughters and daughters-in-law, the work is a treasure trove of information on how women of higher status in the late Chosn ran their households and conducted their daily lives.

One of the most important and celebrated works of premodern Korean prose fiction, Kmo sinhwa (New Tales of the Golden Turtle) is a collection of five tales of the strange written in literary Chinese by Kim Sisp. This book features a study of Kim and the Kmo sinhwa, followed by a complete English translation of the tales.

Two years after Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations was published in 1776, Pak Chega's (1750-1805) Discourse on Northern Learning appeared on the opposite corner of the globe. In a series of short essays, Pak gives us rare insights into life on the ground in late eighteenth-century Korea, and provides a window onto everyday life in Qing China.

This is the first book in English to offer an extensive introduction to the Tongmunsn (Selections of Refined Literature of Korea) - the largest and most important Korean literary collection created prior to the twentieth century - as well as translations of essays from key chapters.

Although famous for its celadon and Buddhist paintings, the Kory? period is still very much terra incognita in world history because of the lack of translated source materials. The present work, the first fully annotated, complete translation of a key source text on Kory?, fills this gap.