TY - GEN T1 - Encounter : a novel of nineteenth-century Korea T2 - Voices from Asia ; A1 - Han, Mu-suk, 1918-1993 LA - English LA - Korean PP - Berkeley PB - University of California Press YR - 1992 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocm44954430 AB - 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' OP - 325 NO - Translation of: Mannam. CN - PL992.26.M8 M3613 1992eb SN - 9780520911086 SN - 0520911083 SN - 0585130612 SN - 9780585130613 SN - 9780520073807 SN - 0520073800 SN - 9780520073814 SN - 0520073819 KW - Chŏng, Yag-yong, : 1762-1836 : Fiction. KW - Chŏng, Ha-sang, : 1795-1839 : Fiction. KW - Chŏng, Ha-sang, : 1795-1839 KW - Chŏng, Yag-yong, : 1762-1836 KW - Korea : Fiction. KW - Languages & Literatures. KW - East Asian Languages & Literatures. KW - Corée : Romans, nouvelles, etc. KW - FICTION : Historical. KW - FICTION : General. KW - Korea KW - Korean fiction. KW - Historical fiction KW - Biographical fiction KW - Fiction KW - Historical fiction. KW - Biographicalfiction. KW - Biographical fiction. ER -