Encounter : a novel of nineteenth-century Korea / by Hahn Moo-Sook ; translated by Ok Young Kim Chang.

Han, Mu-suk, 1918-1993

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: Korean Series: Voices from Asia ; 5.Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1992.Description: 1 online resource (xxiii, 325 pages) : mapContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780520911086
0520911083
0585130612
9780585130613
9780520073807
0520073800
9780520073814
0520073819

Uniform titles:

Mannam. English

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Encounter.DDC classification:

895.7/34 20

LOC classification:

PL992.26.M8 M3613 1992eb

Other classification:

895.734
6,26

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Contents:

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.

Summary: 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'

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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'

Translation of: Mannam.

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