| 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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| Note |
Translation of: Mannam. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| 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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Chŏng, Yag-yong, 1762-1836 -- Fiction.
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Chŏng, Ha-sang, 1795-1839 -- Fiction.
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Chŏng, Yag-yong, 1762-1836.
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Chŏng, Ha-sang, 1795-1839.
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Chŏng, Ha-sang, 1795-1839. (OCoLC)fst00191417
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Chŏng, Yag-yong, 1762-1836. (OCoLC)fst00071755
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Korea -- Fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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Biographical fiction.
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FICTION -- Historical.
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FICTION -- General.
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Korea. (OCoLC)fst01206434
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| Indexed Term |
Korean fiction. |
| Genre/Form |
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Historical fiction.
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Biographicalfiction.
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| Added Title |
Mannam. English
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Han, Mu-suk, 1918- Mannam. English. Encounter. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1992 0520073800 (DLC) 91032825 (OCoLC)24380215 |
| ISBN |
9780520911086 (electronic bk.) |
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0520911083 (electronic bk.) |
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0585130612 (electronic bk.) |
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9780585130613 (electronic bk.) |
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