Yang Hi Choe-Wall

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Yang Hi Choe-Wall


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Seoul, Korea, Republic of
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Korean literature of Chosŏn (1392-1910)


Yang Hi Choe-Wall was born in Seoul, Korea, the fourth child of a family of six children. Her father was a distinguished professor of English literature, a leading Korean intellectual and a prolific literary critic, who published 18 books and over 300 articles in three languages.
Choe-Wall grew up in Seoul during the Japanese annexation of Korea and remained in that city during the Korean War (1950–1953). She attended primary and early part of secondary schools in Seoul, where all subjects were taught in the Japanese language until 1945. Despite the many privations and upsets that befell the family during the two wars, it held together and some of Choe-Wall's siblings became senior academics both in America and France.
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Memoirs of a Korean Queen

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Vision of a Phoenix: The Po...

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Encyclopedia of Korea

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The Korea Fact Book

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