Literature of the early Ming to mid-Ming (1375–1572)

Digital Korean studies: recent advances and new frontiers

“…The four masters, known as Wŏl Sang Kye T’aek 月象谿澤 by the initials of their pen names, are renowned for their elegant prose in the Tang-Song neoclassical mode. However, Yi Chŏnggwi and Yi Sik have been suspected of being influenced by a contemporary literary trend that became fashionable in Beijing: archaism (Korean pokko /Chinese fugu 復古) or Old Phraseology (Korean komunsa /Chinese guwenci 古文辭) (Bryant, 2008; Chang, 2010, pp. 28-36; Rho, 2015; Ong, 2016).…”