The Cloud Dream Of The Nine - Rilegato

Man-Choong, Kim; Man-jung, Kim

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0809587718 ISBN 13: 9780809587711

Casa editrice: Wildside Pr, 2004

Riassunto

"The Cloud Dream of the Nine" is a revelation of what the Oriental thinks and feels not only about things of the earth but about the hidden things of the Universe. It helps us towards a comprehensible knowledge of the Far East. The novel is set 17th Century Tang Dynasty China. It was the first literary work of Korea to be translated into English.

The scene of the amazing "Cloud Dream of the Nine," the most moving romance of polygamy ever written, is laid about 849 A.D. in the period of the great Chinese dynasty of the Tangs. By its simple directness this hitherto unknown Korean classic makes an ineffaceable impression. But the story of the devotion of Master Yang to eight women and of their devotion to him and to each other is more than a naive tale of the relations of men and women under a social code so far removed from our own as to be almost incredible. It is a record of emotions, aspirations and ideas which enables us to look into the innermost chambers of the Chinese soul. "The Cloud Dream of the Nine" is a revelation of what the Oriental thinks and feels not only about things of the earth but about the hidden things of the Universe. It helps us towards a comprehensible knowledge of the Far East.

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Informazioni sull?autore

The seventeenth-century author, Kim Man-Choong, mourned all his life that he should have been born after his father had died. So remarkable was his filial piety that his fame as a son spread far and wide.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Wildside Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0809587718
• ISBN 13: 9780809587711
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 324
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile