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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 39. Chapters: 1454 births, 1454 deaths, 1454 establishments, 1454 in Europe, 1454 in international relations, 1454 in law, Conflicts in 1454, Amerigo Vespucci, Domenico Maria Novara da Ferrara, John II of Castile, John Kemp, Ermolao Barbaro, Choe Bu, Francesco Barbaro, Hakodate, Hokkaido, Jan Standonck, Poliziano, Pinturicchio, Battle of Clachnaharry, Catherine Cornaro, Francis Lovell, 1st Viscount Lovell, List of state leaders in 1454, Joanna of Aragon, Queen of Naples, Bogislaw X, Duke of Pomerania, Lady Margaret Butler, Robert Wingfield, Battle of Chojnice, Feast of the Pheasant, Treaty of Lodi, Rudolf of Zagan, Jakub of Gostynin, Alfonso Téllez-Girón, 1st Count of Ureña, William Turnbull, Carlo Domenico del Carretto, Italic League, Komparu Zempo, Chödrak Gyatso, 7th Karmapa Lama, Henry Clifford, 10th Baron de Clifford, René, Duke of Alençon, Battle of KruSevac, Filippo Decio, Philippe de Culant, George Grey, 2nd Earl of Kent, William Babington, George II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Binat Bibi Mosque, Margareta of Opole, Dobric Dobricevic, Agbarjin, Chiara Zorzi, Statutes of Nieszawa, John Kennedy, 2nd Lord Kennedy, Emrani, Uesugi Akisada, Robert de Baudricourt, Boleslaw IV of Warsaw, Benedikt Rejt, Muhammed X, Sultan of Granada, Muhammed XI, Sultan of Granada, Konoe Tadatsugu. Excerpt: Choe Bu (1454-1504) was a Korean official during the early Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910). He is best known for the account of his shipwrecked travels in China from February to July 1488, during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). He was eventually banished from the Joseon court in 1498 and executed in 1504 during two political purges. However, in 1506 he was exonerated and given posthumous honors by the Joseon court. Choe's diary accounts of his travels in China became widely printed in the 16th century in both Korea and Japan. Modern historians also utilize his written works, since his travel diary provides a unique outsider's perspective on Chinese culture in the 15th century and valuable information on China's cities and regional differences. The attitudes and opinions expressed in his writing represent in part the standpoints and views of the 15th-century Confucian Korean literati, who viewed Chinese culture as compatible with and similar to their own. His description of cities, people, customs, cuisines, and maritime commerce along China's Grand Canal provide insight into the daily life of China and how it differed between northern and southern China during the 15th century. The hyanggyo of Daegu; the hyanggyo were government-run educational facilities where students were educated for civil service.Choe Bu of the Jeonju Choe clan was born in 1454 in the prefectural town of Naju in Jeollanam-do, Korea. Choe passed the jinsa examinations in 1477, which was a lower examination that did not immediately ensure a post in government; rather, it permitted enrollment in the National Academy, or Seonggyungwan, where he could study further for the higher mungwa examinations. In preparation for the exams, he studied the Five Classics as Confucian students had for centuries, but he also was taught the emphasis of the Four Books of Zhu Xi (1130-1200), which was in line with the Neo-Confucian doctrine first accepted in mainstream Chinese education during the mid-13th century. He passe