The Annals of King T\'aejo. Founder of Korea\'s Choson Dynasty - Byonghyon Choi

xx Translator’s Introduction Toward the end of the Yuan dynasty, the Yuan government practiced institutionalized ethnic discrimi ...

Translator’s Introduction xxi order of King Kongmin, T’aejo attacked and seized the Tongnyŏng Administration in P’yŏngan Provinc ...

xxii Translator’s Introduction King Kongyang. Upon ascending the throne, King Kongyang ordered the execution of former Kings U a ...

Translator’s Introduction xxiii records, merit subjects Pae Kŭngnyŏm, Cho Chun, and Chŏng Tojŏn urged the king to decide his hei ...

xxiv Translator’s Introduction powerful Pangwŏn, and his crushing defeat only hastened the voluntary abdication of Chŏngjong in ...

Translator’s Introduction xxv of a Grand Historian, because the style and form dictated by its defined aim is clearly manifest i ...

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1 General Introduction (Ch’ongsŏ) Grand Progenitor, Strong, Dedicated, Humane, Destiny-Opening, Holy, Cul- tivated, and Divinely ...

2 t h e a n n a l s o f k i n g t’a e j o daughter of Chancellor Mun Kŭkkyŏm and became the father of General Yangmu. The genera ...

General Introduction (Ch’ongsŏ) 3 escape from the crisis by taking Tut’a Mountain Fortress^8 for his defense. Then it happened t ...

4 t h e a n n a l s o f k i n g t’a e j o great friendship between us? This jade chalice is just a small token of my warm affect ...

General Introduction (Ch’ongsŏ) 5 in the field of Namgyŏng. A great stone fortress also stood some 7 or 8 li north of Aldong. Th ...

6 t h e a n n a l s o f k i n g t’a e j o was to become Ikcho. In the third month of the twelfth year (1275) of Zhiyuan, he inhe ...

General Introduction (Ch’ongsŏ) 7 they visited him in Aldong. The friendly relationship continued even after Ikcho succeeded Mok ...

8 t h e a n n a l s o f k i n g t’a e j o were already quite near him. Ikcho and his wife Lady Son galloped to the northern hill ...

General Introduction (Ch’ongsŏ) 9 located in Yangyang, Kangwŏn Province. At that time, Ikcho often traveled to Anbyŏn as well as ...

10 t h e a n n a l s o f k i n g t’a e j o Tojo had an audience with King Ch’ungsuk.^42 The king bestowed many gifts on him, aim ...

General Introduction (Ch’ongsŏ) 11 On the twenty-fourth day of the seventh month of the second year (1342) of Zhizheng,^44 Tojo ...