Modern utility

Modern utility

A complete translation of Choe's account into English was prepared by John Meskill as part of his Columbia University dissertation (1958).[33] A slightly abbreviated version of Meskill's translation was published as a book in 1965 by the University of Arizona Press, for the Association for Asian Studies.[34][35]

Choe wrote in the usual tone of a learned Confucian scholar, which provides insight into the values and attitudes of early Joseon Confucian scholars.[6][34] Choe Bu's account is unique among foreign travel accounts in China, since it is from the perspective of a castaway, not a commonplace Korean ambassador to Ming China.[36] Historian Eugene Newton Anderson notes that, while pre-modern Koreans tended to adulate China and associate it with everything that was positive, Choe regarded it with a more objective outsider's perspective.[37] When curious Chinese pressed Choe about Korea's rituals of ancestor worship, Choe responded,
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