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Korea in Transition (Paperback)
James Scarth Gale; Created by Eaton And Mains, Jennings and Graham
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R706
Discovery Miles 7 060
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Korea in Transition (Hardcover)
James Scarth Gale; Created by Eaton And Mains, Jennings and Graham
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R996
Discovery Miles 9 960
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
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Title: Korean Sketches.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print
EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United
Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries
holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats:
books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps,
stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14
million books, along with substantial additional collections of
manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The
GENERAL HISTORICAL collection includes books from the British
Library digitised by Microsoft. This varied collection includes
material that gives readers a 19th century view of the world.
Topics include health, education, economics, agriculture,
environment, technology, culture, politics, labour and industry,
mining, penal policy, and social order. ++++The below data was
compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic
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in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library
Gale, James Scarth; 1898 256 p.; 8 . 010057.e.59.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the
1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly
expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable,
high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Redemption and Regret presents two previously unpublished
typescripts of James Scarth Gale, a Canadian missionary to Korea
for four decades (1888–1927). During his time in Korea, Gale
developed into the foremost Western scholar of Korean history,
language, and literature, completing the first translation of
Korean literature into a Western language, the first translation of
English literature into Korean, and the first comprehensive
Korean-English dictionary. In addition to these translations, the
typescripts entitled Pen Pictures of Old Korea (ca. 1910) and Old
Corea (ca. 1925), each presented here with introductory essays,
contain Gale’s observations of various cultural artifacts,
behaviours, and practices. Gale lived in Korea during a tumultuous
and transformative period that witnessed the transition of the
country from a "hermit" suzerain kingdom to an independent empire,
and finally to a colonial possession of Japan. Pen Pictures of Old
Korea and Old Corea preserve what Gale viewed as inevitably fated
for extinction. This realization imbues his writings with a sense
of ambivalence towards the "passing" of traditional Korea – owing
to the conflict between his profound admiration for pre-modern
Korean culture and his Western missionary identity, which demanded
that the country adapt to a modern, Christian world.
Score One for the Dancing Girl presents more than a hundred stories
from an early-nineteenth-century collection of yadam stories, the
Kimun ch'onghwa ("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. 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.
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