Encounter : a novel of nineteenth-century Korea /

This historical novel, Encounter (Mannam), by Hahn Moo-Sook, one of Asia's most honored writers, is a story of the resilience in the Korean spirit. It is told through the experiences of Tasan, a high-ranking official and foremost Neo-Confucian scholar at the beginning of the nineteenth century....

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Uniform title:Mannam.
Author / Creator: Han, Mu-suk, 1918-1993.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Korean
Language notes:Translation of: Mannam.
Imprint: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1992.
Series:Voices from Asia ; 5.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Foreword: Saints, Sages, and the Novelist's Art; Principal Characters in Encounter; 1. "Admonition on the Transitory"; 2. Betrayal; 3. Partings; 4. Shaman's Daughter; 5. True Principles of Catholicism; 6. Sowing; 7. Pondering; 8. The Winter Solstice Mission: Journey to Peking; 9. Embrace; 10. Encounter; MAPS; A Yi dynasty map of Korea; Korea in the Yi dynasty; Seoul in the nineteenth century.