Korea -- History; Korea -- Social life and customs
* Histoire de l’Eglise de Corée, par Ch. Dallet. 2 vols. 8vo, pp. 982.
Paris, 1874. This excellent work contains 192 pages of introduction,
full of accurate information concerning the political social life,
geography, and language of Corea, and a history of the introduction and
progress of Roman Christianity, and the labors of the French
missionaries, from 1784–1866. It contains also a map and four charts of
Corean writing.
* Une Expedition en Corée. In la Tour du Monde for 1873 there is an
article of 16 pp. (401–417) with illustrations, by M. H. Zuber, a
French naval officer, who was in Corea in 1866 under Admiral Roze. An
excellent descriptive paper by an eye-witness.
* Diary of a Chinese Envoy to Corea (Journal d’une Mission en Corée),
by Koei Ling, Ambassador of his Majesty the Emperor of China, to the
court of Chō-sen in 1866. Translated from the Chinese into French by F.
Scherzer, Interpreter to the French Legation at Peking. 8vo, pp. 77.
Paris, 1882. This journal of the last Chinese ambassador to Seoul is
well rendered, and is copiously supplied with explanatory notes, and a
colored map of the author’s route from Peking through Chili,
Shing-king, via Mukden, and through three provinces of Corea to Seoul.
† Many memoirs and special papers prepared by French officers in the
expedition to Corea in 1866 were prepared and read before local
societies at Cherbourg, Lyons, etc.
† Expedition de Corée. Revue maritime et coloniale, February, 1867, pp.
474–481.
† Paris Moniteur, 1866–67.
** Lettre sur la Corée et son Eglise Chrétienne. Bulletin de la Société
Geographique de Lyon, 1876, pp. 278–282, and June, 1870, pp. 417–422,
and map.
** The Corean Martyrs. By Canon Shortland. 1 vol., pp. 115. London.
Compiled from the letters of the French missionaries.
** Nouvelle Geographie Universelle. This superb treasury of
geographical science, still unfinished, contains a full summary of our
knowledge of Corea, especially showing the prominent part which French
navigators, scholars, and missionaries have taken in its exploration.
Paris.
** Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean and Round the World.
By William R. Broughton. 2 vols. 4to, with atlas. London, 1804.
** Voyage Round the World. By Jean François de Gallou de La Perouse.
London, 1799.
** Voyages to the Eastern Seas in the year 1818. By Basil Hall. New
York, London, and revised by Captain Hall in 1827. Jamaica, N. Y.
* Narrative of a Voyage in His Majesty’s late Ship Alceste, to the
Yellow Sea, along the Coast of Corea, and through its numerous hitherto
undiscovered Islands, etc., etc. By John McLeod, Surgeon of the
Alceste. 1 vol., pp. 288 (see pp. 38–53). London, 1877. A witty and
lively narrative.
** Voyages along the Coast of China (Corea), etc. By Charles Gutzlaff.
1 vol., pp. 332. New York, 1833. (From July 17, to August 17, 1832; pp.
254–287.)
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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