(MUST READ) Early Korea/Corea Stores in the NYT

Commenter Sonagi spent some time poking through the NYT archive and managed to find some of the NYT’s earlier pieces on Korea. Really fascinating stuff — be sure to go through her links.

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4 Comments

  1. leguwan your flag
    Posted September 21, 2007 at 5:26 pm | Permalink

    Great stuff Robert!

    I think my favorite is the 1898 article about the natives being inveterate smokers… Nothing has changed since!!

  2. sanshinseon your flag
    Posted September 22, 2007 at 1:22 am | Permalink

    Kewl articles alright… they give us some perspective on what has changed and what hasn’t…

  3. Netizen Kim your flag
    Posted September 22, 2007 at 6:05 am | Permalink

    America as seen by an Oriental diplomat by Wu Tingfang:

    http://www.worldwideschool.org.....a/toc.html

  4. Sonagi your flag
    Posted September 22, 2007 at 7:33 am | Permalink

    I haven’t read Wu’s book, but I own copies of these classics written to explain China and Chinese people to the West:

    My Country, My People
    http://www.amazon.com/My-Count.....9971642050

    The Spirit of the Chinese People
    http://www.chinasprout.com/shop/BHT005

    The second book is a bit chauvinistic, as the description suggests. Ku discussed his perceived strengths and weaknesses of Americans, French, British, and other nationalities, and then proceeded to demonstrate how the Chinese possess all the positive qualities of the aforementioned nationalities, albeit he did acknowledge the Chinese had a few weaknesses. As I recall, Ku described Chinese women as far more delicate than moustachioed Western he-women. My, how Chinese women have changed.

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