Encounter: a novel of nineteenth-century Korea
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1. Verfasser: Han, Mu-suk (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berkeley University of California Press ©1992
Schriftenreihe:Voices from Asia 5
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Beschreibung:Translation of: Mannam
Includes bibliographical references
Cover; Contents; Foreword: Saints, Sages, and the Novelist's Art; Principal Characters in Encounter; 1. "Admonition on the Transitory"; 2. Betrayal; 3. Partings; 4. Shaman's Daughter; 5. True Principles of Catholicism; 6. Sowing; 7. Pondering; 8. The Winter Solstice Mission: Journey to Peking; 9. Embrace; 10. Encounter; MAPS; A Yi dynasty map of Korea; Korea in the Yi dynasty; Seoul in the nineteenth century
This historical novel, Encounter (Mannam), by Hahn Moo-Sook, one of Asia's most honored writers, is a story of the resilience in the Korean spirit. It is told through the experiences of Tasan, a high-ranking official and foremost Neo-Confucian scholar at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Because of Tasan's fascination with Western learning, then synonymous with Catholicism, he is exiled to a remote province for 18 years. In banishment he meets people from various social and religious backgrounds-Buddhist monks, peasants, shamans-whom he would not otherwise have met. The events of Tasan'
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xxiii, 325 pages)
ISBN:0520073800
0520073819
0520911083
0585130612
9780520911086
9780585130613

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