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King Chŏngjo: An Enlightened Despot in Early Modern Korea. By Christopher Lovins. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2019. xxiv, 222 pp. ISBN: 9781438473635 (cloth).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 December 2019

Andrew David Jackson*
Affiliation:
Monash University, Melbourne
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Book Reviews—Northeast Asia
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2019 

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