| Description |
1 online resource (xxiii, 325 pages) : map |
| Series |
Voices from Asia ; 5 |
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Voices from Asia ; 5.
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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' |
| Analysis |
Korean fiction |
| Notes |
Translation of: Mannam |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Translation of: Mannam |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Chŏng, Yag-yong, 1762-1836 -- Fiction
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Chŏng, Ha-sang, 1795-1839 -- Fiction
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Chŏng, Ha-sang, 1795-1839 |
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Chŏng, Yag-yong, 1762-1836 |
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FICTION -- Historical.
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FICTION -- General.
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Korea -- Fiction
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Korea
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| Genre/Form |
Historical fiction
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Biographical fiction
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Fiction
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Historical fiction.
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Biographicalfiction.
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Historical fiction.
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Biographical fiction.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780520911086 |
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0520911083 |
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0585130612 |
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9780585130613 |
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9780520073807 |
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0520073800 |
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9780520073814 |
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0520073819 |
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