Books Quote by Heo Gyun

“In fact, in his communications with the King of Joseon, Hong Gildong makes it clear that he had to resort to outlawry because he…

— Heo Gyun

“The work’s persistent popularity in the modern era can be explained by its elevation of a neglected secondary son as a great hero. In…

— Heo Gyun

“In a rather unflattering portrait of his former teacher, Yi claims that Heo and his closest friends were such admirers of the Chinese epic…

— Heo Gyun

“Suddenly there appeared a general, with a small following, who cried out, “Cai Mao and Zhang Yun are two traitors. The princely Liu Bei…

— Luo Guanzhong

“In Hwang’s view, the Pyongyang leadership “used the feudalistic idea of filial piety to justify absolutism of the Great Leader. Filial piety in feudalism…

— Bradley K. Martin

“He considered China’s interference in Korea to be an intolerable attempt to prevent the spread of enlightenment, and the war itself not merely a…

— Donald Keene

“He didn't know what he was anymore – not truly Chinese, for he had spent too long in the West, adopted too many Western…

— Dominique Wilson

I can understand the Cultural Revolution of Mao Tse-tung.

— Ferdinand Marcos

“Dynasties rise and fall according to what the Chinese used to call ‘the mandate of heaven’, but life for the peasant changes little.”

— Kenneth Minogue

“Once there was a dictator. He drove millions to various kinds of deaths, by war, in prison, or simply in harsh deserts farming their…

— Geoff Ryman

“Liang Qichao, one of China’s leading reformers of the early twentieth century, hailed the importance of the individual in national development, but renounced that…

— Evan Osnos

The reader feels as if he is in Chongjin, where starving people ate the bark off trees; or atop Mount Taesong with the elite…

— Adam Johnson