Encounter : a novel of nineteenth-century Korea /
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....
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| פורמט: | Licensed eBooks |
| שפה: | אנגלית קוריאנית |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press
©1992.
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| סדרה: | Voices from Asia ;
5. |
| גישה מקוונת: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1ppsp3 |
| סיכום: | 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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| תאור פריט: | Translation of: Mannam. |
| תיאור פיזי: | 1 online resource (xxiii, 325 pages) : map |
| ביבליוגרפיה: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780520911086 0520911083 0585130612 9780585130613 9780520073807 0520073800 9780520073814 0520073819 |