期刊名称：International Institute for Asian Studies Annual Report
出版年度：2004
期号：33
出版社：International Institute for Asian Studies
摘要：This biography is the first book-length study in a Western languageof this icon of Korean resistance toJapanese encroachment. Contrary towhat one might expect, Michael Finchdoes not concentrate on Min's suicide,but rather on his political career in therun-up to his suicide. He justifies thischoice by referring to the existing dis-tortion in standard political histories ofpre-annexation Korea in favour of rad-ical reform factions. Considered to runagainst the tide of the times, conserva-tive forces in Korea's political landscapehave consistently been underrepre-sented in scholarly research
