Portrait of Park Ji-won by his grandson Park Ju-su
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Person1737 – 1805

Park Ji-won (Yeonam)

Silhak scholar who wrote the Yeolha ilgi after travelling to Qing

From a Noron family, he led the Northern Learning (Bukhak) school. In 1780 he accompanied the embassy for the Qianlong Emperor's seventieth birthday as far as Rehe and wrote the Yeolha ilgi, urging the use of carts and ships and the circulation of money. In Chinese-language stories such as Heosaeng-jeon, Yangban-jeon and Hojil he satirised the hypocrisy and incompetence of the yangban. In the Gwanong socho he argued for limiting landholding.

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1778Park Je-ga’s Bukhaguirelated figure
Back from Qing, Park Je-ga wrote Bukhagui urging Korea to learn from Qing, use carts and ships to build up commerce and industry, and stop preaching thrift alone, since consumption spurs production.
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1780Park Ji-won’s journey to Reheauthor
Park Ji-won joined the embassy for the Qianlong Emperor’s birthday, travelling to Beijing and Rehe; his Yeolha ilgi urged Korea to learn from Qing.

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Documentary: HD History Special Episode 55: Following Park Ji-won's Jehol Diary, Part 1: Past the Goguryeo Fortresses and Across the Liao RiverDocumentary · 2006 · KBS1
Book: The Jehol DiaryBook · 2009 · Park Ji-won (tr. Kim Hyeol-jo) · Dolbegae

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The age when the Ming, shaken by northern raiders, southern pirates and the silver economy, fell to Li Zicheng’s rebels, and the Manchu Qing reached its greatest extent and prosperity under Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong — as Japan was unified out of the Warring States into the Edo shogunate’s bakuhan order and closed country, and Joseon, after two great wars, met its neighbours through embassies to Edo and the Northern Learning
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