Man-Sik Chae, Kyung-Ja Chun

Peace Under Heaven

A Modern Korean Novel: A Modern Korean Novel

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this satirical novel, set in Japanese-occupied Korea, 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 1993
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781563241123
• ISBN-10: 1563241129
• Artikelnr.: 21946630

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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