Min Yonghwan
Subtitle: the selected writings of a late Choson diplomat
By: translated, annotated and with an introduction by Michael C.E. Finch.
Contributors: Finch, Michael, 1957-
Series: Korea research monograph -- 32
Publisher: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Berkeley, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
Subjects: Min, Yŏng-hwan, -- 1861-1905. -- Travel; Diplomats -- Korea
Work titles: Selections.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ch. 1. Introduction; title: Ch. 2. One policy out of a thousand (Chʻŏnilchʻaek) : Min Yonghwan's policy recommendations to the Korean court prior to the Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895); title: Ch. 3. Sea, sky, autumn voyage (Haechʻŏnchʻubŏm) : a daily record of Min Yonghwan's round-the-world journey to and from the coronation of Tsar Nicholas II and his diplomatic activities in Moscow and St. Petersburg in 1896; title: Ch. 4. Additional notes of an envoy to Europe (Sagusokchʻo) : a daily record of Min Yonghwan's journey to and participation in the diamond jubilee of Queen Victoria in London in 1897; title: Ch. 5. The veritable record of Min Yonghwan (Min Chʻungjŏnggong sillok) : a contemporary account of Min Yonghwan's final days and suicide in protest against the Japanese-Korean Treaty of Protection in 1905.