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Journal
ASIA WEEK
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Language
English(English)
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Book
Memoirs of a Korean queen
Writer
Hyegyeong-Gung Hong
Translator
Choe-Wall Yang-hi

About the Author

  • Hyegyeong-Gung Hong
  • Birth : 1735 ~ 1815
  • Occupation : Essayist
  • First Name : Hyegyeonggunghongssi
  • Family Name : Hyegyeonggung
  • Korean Name : 혜경궁 홍씨
  • ISNI : 0000000117947733
  • Works : 13
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  • English(English)

In 1796, at the age of 60, Lady Hong of the Hyegyŏng Palace in Seoul began to write her memoirs, she completed the task in 1807, eight years before her death. This volume is a rare surviving work by a woman of the Yi Dynasty (1392-1910) and written in Han'gŭl, the Korean phonetic alphabet. (virtually all extant literature from the period is in Chinese, composed by Korean men well versed in the Chinese classics.) As Memoirs is a vital account of Korean court life, excerpts have been included in the nation's secondary-school textbooks since Korea's liberation from Japanese rule in 1945.

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