Min Yong-Hwan: A Political Biography

by Michael Finch

The diplomat and scholar-official Min Y?ng-hwan (1861-1905), described by one contemporary Western observer as "undoubtably the first Korean after the emperor," is best remembered in Korean historiography for his pioneering diplomacy at the courts of Tsar Nicholas II and Queen Victoria in the late 1890s. Furthermore, he is considered to be the foremost patriot of Korea's Taehan era (1897-1907). This pioneering study of Min Y?ng-hwan is long overdue...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824825209
• ISBN13: 9780824825201
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"