Score one for the dancing girl, and other selections from the Kimun chʻonghwa : a story collection from nineteenth-century Korea / translated by James Scarth Gale ; edited by Ross King and Si Nae Park ; annotations by Donguk Kim.

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Book
Language
  • English
  • Korean
Published/​Created
Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2016]
Description
lxi, 630 pages ; 24 cm.

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    Series
    • James Scarth Gale library of Korean literature [More in this series]
    • The James Scarth Gale library of Korean literature
    Summary note
    • "Score One for the Dancing Girl presents more than a hundred stories from an early-nineteenth-century collection of yadam stories, the Kimun chʼonghwa ("Compendium of Records of Hearsay"). Prose tales that feature historical people and places but may also include fantastical elements, the yadam stories in this volume feature ghosts and magic, courtesans and sex, and court politics. They constitute both an entertaining literary collection and a rich treasure trove of information about life in seventeenth and eighteenth-century Korea."-- From publisher's website.
    • "The first volume in an ongoing series of translations of classic Korean literature by the Canadian missionary James Scarth Gale (1863 1937), Score One for the Dancing Girl includes the original literary Sinitic (hanmun) text and Gale's English translation. Both the hanmun and English are extensively annotated. Introductory essays by Ross King and Si Nae Park discuss the yadam genre, Gale's life and career, and the ways in which his background as a Christian missionary affected the translations."-- From publisher's website.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Language note
    Text in Korean
    Script
    (Hanmun) with English translation.
    Other title(s)
    Kimun chʻonghwa. Selections.
    ISBN
    • 9781442647336 ((bound))
    • 1442647337 ((bound))
    LCCN
    2016591757
    OCLC
    932093606
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