A Chinese Traveler in Medieval Korea: Xu Jing's Illustrated Account of the Xuanhe Embassy to Koryŏ (Korean Classics Library: Historical Materials) by Sem Vermeersch

A Chinese Traveler in Medieval Korea: Xu Jing's Illustrated Account of the Xuanhe Embassy to Koryŏ (Korean Classics Library: Historical Materials)

Sem Vermeersch

394 pages • first pub 2016 (view editions)

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"The king and ministers, superior and inferior, move with ritual and refinement. When the king goes on an inspection tour, everyone has the correct ceremonial attributes and the divine flag [troops] gallop in front while armored soldiers block th...

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