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Peace under Heaven: a Modern Korean Novel : A Modern Korean Novel by Man-Sik Chae and Kyung-Ja Chun (1993, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherRoutledge

ISBN-101563241129

ISBN-139781563241123

eBay Product ID (ePID)427603

Product Key Features

Edition2

Book TitlePeace under Heaven: a Modern Korean Novel : a Modern Korean Novel

Number of Pages272 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1993

TopicEthnic Studies / General, Poverty & Homelessness, Regional Studies, General

IllustratorYes

GenreSocial Science, Fiction

AuthorMan-Sik Chae, Kyung-Ja Chun

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Weight18.9 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN92-031807

Edition DescriptionRevised edition,New Edition

SynopsisOriginally published in Seoul in 1938, soon after the outbreak of the Pacific War, "Peace Under Heaven" is a satirical novel centering on the household of a Korean landlord during the Japanese colonial occupation. Master Yun, embodying the traditional ambitions of a standard Korean paterfamilias, by being projected fast forward into a modern urban environment, caricatures the increasing irrelevance of Confucian mores to 20th-century social reality. Depicting the anomic lives of the Yun household in colonial Seoul, Chase Man-Sik, one of modern Korea's best-known writers, uses black comedy to underscore the collapse of ritualistic traditional values in the face of capitalist modernisation. The decadence of the nouveau riche pseudo-aristocrat Master Yun is interwoven with insights into the customary bases of oppression of Korean women into the self-deceptions underlying collaboration by Koreans with the Japanese oppressor. The savage hilarity of Chae's style lends force and historical relevance to his insight into the attitudes of the milieu in which his narrative is set.

LC Classification NumberPL991.13.M3.T313