The reader must lay aside all Western notions of morality if he
would thoroughly enjoy this book. 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 nave 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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