Peace Under Heaven: A Modern Korean Novel: A Modern Korean Novel

ISBN-13: 9781563241727 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 272 str.

Chae Man-Sik; Chun Kyung-Ja; Carter J. Eckert

Opis

Originally published in Seoul in 1938, soon after the outbreak of the Pacific War, Peace Under Heaven is a satirical novel centering on the household of a Korean landlord during the Japanese colonial occupation. Master Yun, embodying the traditional ambitions of a standard Korean paterfamilias, by being projected fast forward into a modern urban environment, caricatures the increasing irrelevance of Confucian mores to 20th-century social reality.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 Master Yun’s Route Home; Chapter 2 Getting a Free Ride: A Feat of Skill; Chapter 3 The Festival of Great Singers in the Countries of the West; Chapter 4 Let Everyone Else Go to Hell; Chapter 5 A Slum of the Heart; Chapter 6 Reports from the Front Line; Chapter 7 And Oxen Breed Iron …; Chapter 8 Three Old Coins and …; Chapter 9 Frugality for Its Own Sake; Chapter 10 An Anecdote of No Significance; Chapter 11 A Surplus of People and a Shortage of Goods; Chapter 12 A Brief History of the Universal Trade; Chapter 13 Though the Ax Handle Rot… (Or, Latter-day Immortals at Play); Chapter 14 The Sun Sets on the Great Wall; Chapter 15 Seek Not Far for the Agent of Your Doom;

O autorze

Man-Sik Ch’ae, Kyung-Ja Chun, Carter J. Eckert