The Power of the Brush

• Tác giả: Hwisang Cho
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-0295747828
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 495.711 Languages of East and Southeast Asia Sino-Tibetan languages
• Thông tin xuất bản: University of Washington Press 2020
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 electronic resource (290 p.)
• Bộ sưu tập: NCBI
• ID: 231884

Tóm tắt

The invention of an easily learned Korean alphabet in the mid-fifteenth century sparked an "epistolary revolution" in the following century as letter writing became an indispensable daily practice for elite men and women alike. The amount of correspondence increased exponentially as new epistolary networks were built among scholars and within families, and written culture created room for appropriation and subversion by those who joined epistolary practices.