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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 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.
The young lady blushed, and said hesitatingly in reply: "Cloudlet,
my dear, you know how I have been as careful of my behaviour as the
Book of Rites requires; and how I have guarded my thoughts as the
pearls and jewels of my life; that my feet have never ventured
outside the middle gates; and that in conversation I have not even
met my friends. Would you believe it, I have been deceived and have
had put upon me a disgrace that will never be wiped out. How shall
I bear it or lift up my face again to the light of day?"
The young lady blushed, and said hesitatingly in reply: "Cloudlet,
my dear, you know how I have been as careful of my behaviour as the
Book of Rites requires; and how I have guarded my thoughts as the
pearls and jewels of my life; that my feet have never ventured
outside the middle gates; and that in conversation I have not even
met my friends. Would you believe it, I have been deceived and have
had put upon me a disgrace that will never be wiped out. How shall
I bear it or lift up my face again to the light of day?"
The young lady blushed, and said hesitatingly in reply: "Cloudlet,
my dear, you know how I have been as careful of my behaviour as the
Book of Rites requires; and how I have guarded my thoughts as the
pearls and jewels of my life; that my feet have never ventured
outside the middle gates; and that in conversation I have not even
met my friends. Would you believe it, I have been deceived and have
had put upon me a disgrace that will never be wiped out. How shall
I bear it or lift up my face again to the light of day?"
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