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Format: 1 online resource

ISBN: 9780231520539

Series Statement: Weatherhead Books on Asia

Content: Yi T'aejun was a prolific and influential writer of colonial Korea, and an acknowledged master of the short story and essay. Born in northern Korea in 1904, Yi T'aejun settled in Seoul after a restless youth that included several years of study in Japan. In 1946, he moved to Soviet-occupied North Korea, but was caught up in a purge of southern communists and forced into internal exile a decade later. It is believed Yi T'aejun passed away sometime between 1960 and 1980. His works were banned in South Korea until 1988, when censorship laws concerning authors who had sided with the north were eased. The essays in this collection reflect Yi's distinct voice and lyrical expression, revealing his thoughts on a variety of subjects, ranging from gardens to immigrant villages in Manchuria, from antiques to colonial assimilation, and from fishing to the recovery of Korea's past. Written when fascism threatened the absorption of every Korean into Japan's wartime regime, Yi's essays explore the arts and daily life of precolonial times and attempt to bring that past back to life in his present. A final long essay takes the reader through Manchuria, where Yi laments the scattering of Koreans throughout the Japanese empire while celebrating human perseverance in the face of loss and change.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Translator’S Acknowledgments -- , Introduction -- , Walls -- , Water -- , Night -- , Early Ripening -- , Death -- , Mountains -- , The Flowerbed -- , The Banana Plant -- , Feet -- , Compassion -- , Stones -- , The Sea -- , The City Wall -- , Autumn Flowers -- , Dawn -- , Loneliness -- , Narcissus -- , History -- , For Whom Do We Write? -- , The Critic -- , Eastern Sentiments -- , The Short Story and the Conte -- , Titles and Other Matters -- , Korea’s Fiction -- , The Taste of Fiction -- , The Fiction Writer -- , Friendship Between Men and Women -- , This Thing Called the Popular -- , The Taste of The Tale of Ch’unhyang -- , Kisaeng and Poetry -- , Orchid -- , Night Flight -- , Books -- , Brush and Ink -- , Copying -- , One Part Words -- , Nature and Books -- , The Love of a Work -- , Other People’s Writing -- , After Illness -- , The New Bride and an Ink Painting of Bamboo -- , Readers’ Letters -- , The Year of the Ox -- , Trees -- , Plum Blossom -- , The Classics -- , A Poor Drinker -- , The Carpenters -- , Fishing -- , Oriental Painting -- , Antiques -- , Antiques and Daily Life -- , Fiction -- , Greetings -- , The Old Writings of Two Qing Poets -- , Diary from a Seaside Village (Shōwa 11) -- , Record of a Journey to Manchuria -- , Backmatter

Language: English

DOI: 10.7312/yi--14944

URL: https://doi.org/10.7312/yi--14944