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A Place to Live - A New Translation of Yi Chung-hwan's T'aengniji, the Korean Classic for Choosing Settlements (Hardcover)
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A Place to Live - A New Translation of Yi Chung-hwan's T'aengniji, the Korean Classic for Choosing Settlements (Hardcover)
Series: Korean Classics Library: Philosophy and Religion
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A Place to Live brings together in a single volume an introduction
to Yi Chung-hwan's (1690-1756) T'aengniji (Treatise on Choosing
Settlement)-one of the most widely read and influential of the
Korean classics-and an annotated translation of the text, including
the author's postscript. Yi composed the T'aengniji in the 1750s, a
time when, despite King Yongjo's (r. 1724-1776) policy of
impartiality, the scholar-gentry class continued to identifiy
strongly with literati factions and to participate in the political
scene as such. A prominent secretary who had his career cut short
because of suspected involvement in one of the largest literati
purges at court, Yi endured long periods of living in exile before
finishing the T'aengniji in his early sixties. The treatise, his
only substantial work, is based largely on his travels throughout
the Korean peninsula and presents not only his views on the
desirability of places for settlement, but also his opinions on
contemporary matters and criticism of government policy. As a
result, the T'aengniji circulated as an anonymous work for many
years. Employing the latest research on T'aengniji manuscripts,
translator Inshil Yoon maintains in her introduction that the
original title of the treatise was Sadaebu kagoch'o (Livable Places
for the Scholar-Gentry); she goes on to discuss in detail its
reception by pre-modern and contemporary scholars and the
treatise's on-going popularity as evidenced by the numerous
versions and translations done in this and the previous century,
its having been made into a novel, and current usage of
""T'aengniji"" as a noun meaning ""regional geography"" or
""travelogue."" The present translation is based on the Choson
Kwangmunhoe edition.
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