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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Through the lens of epistolary practice, The Power of the Brush revisits many important issues required for a critical understanding of late Choson society."
* The Seoul Journal of Korean Studies *
"Well illustrated with relevant examples of letters, and including helpful tabulations, this study covers an enormous range of historical and political experience, bravely attempting to compare Korean and other societies’ letter writers, as well as the persistence of letter petitions in modern South Korea."
* Journal of Asian Studies *
"Hwisang Cho's book is a welcome addition to a nascent body of English-language scholarship on the study of Korean letters and provides vital insight into how epistolary practice in sixteenth-century Chosŏn spurred sociocultural and political change."
* Acta Koreana *
"The Power of the Brush further enriches the understanding of Chosŏn elite’s political epistolary writing…[O]ur understanding of premodern Korean humanities would be incomplete without this book."
* Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies *
"This book, with its rich content and detailed historical information, discusses the social and political situation of Chosŏn Korea in terms of epistolary practice and thereby provides a new window into Korean culture."
* Religious Studies Review *
