Everlasting Empire, by Yi In-Hwa

Translated by Yu Young-nan (2002 Daesan Prize for Outstanding Literary Translation), with an iIntroduction by Don Baker.

An historical fiction that examines the last years of King Chongjo (r. 1777-1800), the grandson of King Yongjo, and more notably, the son of Crown Prince Sado, who was killed by his father, King Yongjo, who asked him to step into a rice chest and sealed it, whereupon he died of starvation. For more on that compelling story, The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyeong (wife of Crown Princ...