Premodern Korea in the Emergent World
Read:
- "Cartography of Korea" The History of Cartography (book II) by J.B Harvey and David Woodward (University of Chicago Press, 1987)
Kangnido
Map of integrated lands and regions of historical countries and capitals (Chosŏn, 1470 [1402])
Ref. Pax Mongolica
Read:
- A Study of 16th-Century Western Books on Korea: The Birth of an Image by Cheong Sung-hwa & Lee Kihan
Ch’ŏnhado chido
Ch’ŏnha do chido in the Yŏjido; a hand-copied version (1770s) of Giulio Aleni’s Wanguo quantu (1623) from the collection of the Kyujanggak at Seoul National University.
Konyŏ man'guk chŏndo (map of ten thousand countries)
A 1708 Korean copy of the world map by Matteo Ricci. The Chinese original is the oldest surviving Western map in East Asia.
Ref. Ch’oe Ch’ŏk's travel routes
An English translation of “the Tale of Ch’oe Chŏk” is available in Premodern Korean Literary Prose: An Anthology, edited by Michael J. Pettid, Gregory N. Evon, and Chan E. Park, 132–161. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018.
Ch'ŏnhado
Wŏnhyŏng Ch'ŏnhado from the 18th century Haedong chido; in the collection of the Kyujanggak at Seoul National University
Chigu chŏnhudo, an 1834 world map by Ch'oe Han'gi
Taedong yŏjido, an 1861 map of Korea by Kim Chŏngho
Author Biography
Sookja Cho is an assistant professor of Korean at Arizona State University. Cho’s research fields include Pre-modern Korean and Chinese literature and culture, Sino-Korean exchange and East Asian comparative literature, performance literature, and oral storytelling and folk literature. She is the author of two books, Transforming Gender and Emotion: The Butterfly Lovers Story in China and Korea (University of Michigan Press, 2018) and The Tale of Cho Ung: A Classic of Vengeance, Loyalty and Romance (Columbia University Press, 2018). She is currently working on projects on Sino-Korean literature and cultural exchange.______________________
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