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portada Not Everything Unfolds As Anticipated. Selections from Yi Kyubo’s Tongguk Yi Sangguk Chip
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Collection
Korean Classics Library: Historical Materials
Year
2026
Language
English
Pages
552
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
22.90 x 15.20 cm
ISBN13
9798880701902

Not Everything Unfolds As Anticipated. Selections from Yi Kyubo’s Tongguk Yi Sangguk Chip

Remco E. Breuker;Robert E. Buswell (Author) · University of Hawai'i Press · Hardcover

Not Everything Unfolds As Anticipated. Selections from Yi Kyubo’s Tongguk Yi Sangguk Chip - Remco E. Breuker;Robert E. Buswell

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Synopsis "Not Everything Unfolds As Anticipated. Selections from Yi Kyubo’s Tongguk Yi Sangguk Chip"

Yi Kyubo (1168–1241) was the foremost writer and poet of the Koryo dynasty (918–1392). Not Everything Unfolds as Anticipated is a miscellany of work from his Tongguk Yi Sangguk chip, a collection containing more than two thousand texts and considered the earliest substantial oeuvre of a Koryo writer to date. The present work comprises translations of poems, tales, letters, epitaphs, and funeral orations, as well as "The Cantefable of King Tongmyong," Yi’s famous poem chronicling Koryo’s mythological past. Also included are forewords and afterwords to books no longer extant that shed light on the intellectual, literary, and printing habits of the time. Yi is best remembered as a literary figure, but for much of his career, he served as a composer of official government texts. Accordingly, a large number of his writings tell us about Yi the bureaucrat and administrator and military rule in early thirteenth-century Koryo. Many of the administrative changes brought about during this period of intense transformation are recounted in Yi’s writings, such as the dethroning and enthroning of rulers by the Ch’oe military and the government’s official reaction to the collapse of the Jurchen Jin state, Koryo’s nominal suzerain. Almost up until the day he died, Yi remained the main author of diplomatic texts sent to the invading Mongol armies. Not Everything Unfolds as Anticipated not only reveals the existential truths of human life as recorded by the brush of medieval Korea’s most gifted poet, but also offers a many-faceted view of a formative period in Korean history.

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