The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong: The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown Princess of Eighteenth-Century Korea (book review)

HABOUSH, JAHYUN KIM, translation, introduction and annotations. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. xii + 372 pages. Map, illustrations, appendices, glossary, index. Cloth US$50.00; ISBN 0-520-20054-3. Paper US$17.95; ISBN 0-520-20055-1.

By any measure, The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong is a remarkable and astonishing work. Subtitled The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown Princess, this work, brilliantly translated and annotated by Jahyun Kim Haboush, tells the dark and tragic story of the execution of Crown Prince Sado at the age of twenty-seven by his father, King Yongjo ...

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