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Two years after Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations was published in 1776, Pak Chega's (1750-1805) Discourse on Northern Learning appeared on the opposite corner of the globe. In a series of short essays, Pak gives us rare insights into life on the ground in late eighteenth-century Korea, and provides a window onto everyday life in Qing China.

A Korean Scholars Rude Awakening in Qing China

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    A Hardback by Pak Chega, Seung B. Kye, Timothy V. Atkinson

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      Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press
      Publication Date: 7/30/2019 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780824877934, 978-0824877934
      ISBN10: 0824877934
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      Book Synopsis
      Two years after Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations was published in 1776, Pak Chega's (1750-1805) Discourse on Northern Learning appeared on the opposite corner of the globe. In a series of short essays, Pak gives us rare insights into life on the ground in late eighteenth-century Korea, and provides a window onto everyday life in Qing China.

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