Han Yong-un & Yi Kwang-su

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Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814323540
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (235 download)

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Book Synopsis Han Yong-un & Yi Kwang-su by : Beongcheon Yu

Download or read book Han Yong-un & Yi Kwang-su written by Beongcheon Yu and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "No other modern Korean writers living under Japanese rule (1910-1945) experienced the history of their country more intimately and intensely than did Han Yong-un and Yi Kwang-su, for they were more than writers. Han was an eminent Buddhist monk, and Yi was an equally prominent national leader. Their careers crossed often, involving politics, journalism, literature, and religion. And yet they lived a world apart, pursuing opposite paths. Han was revered for his fierce commitment to Korean independence and his single volume of poems, The Silence of My Beloved. Yi, despite all his contributions to the development of modern Korean literature, particularly his first novel Heartless, has been branded a traitor for his collaboration with the Japanese. Even during their lifetimes both attained a mythical status and have since become legends of modern Korea." "In this first book-length study of Han and Yi in English, Beongcheon Yu seeks to demythify them and reassess their achievements as writers. He surveys their careers, reviewing significant events and patterns in their lives, and then confronts their literary works, weighing whatever permanence they may claim. Yu's introduction provides a historical background of modern Korea, and his conclusion brings Han and Yi together, pairing them as has never been done, in an attempt to understand them more clearly as men and as writers." "As is evident in their biographical sketches, Han and Yi had full careers - so colorful and fascinating that they constantly disrupt our proper critical attention to their writings. Yu, in his deliberate contrast of their literary achievements, provides a study of these two highly influential men that is informative and stimulating to general readers and at the same time provocative and challenging to specialists."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Makers of Modern Korean Buddhism

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Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438429231
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Makers of Modern Korean Buddhism written by Jin Y. Park and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overview of Korean Buddhism and its major figures in the modern period.

Everything Yearned For

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0861718488
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book Everything Yearned For written by and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-02-08 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manhae (1879-1944), or Han Yongun, was a Korean Buddhist (Son) monk during the era of Japanese colonial occupation (1910-1945). Manhae is a political and cultural hero in Korea, and his works are studied by college students and school children alike. Everything Yearned For is a collection of 88 love poems, evocative of the mystical love poetry of Rumi, and even reminiscent of the work of Pablo Neruda.Though Manahe's poetry can be read allegorically on many levels - political and religious - it is completely unlike any other poetry in Buddhist or secular realm. The first poem, "My Lover's Silence," narrates the lover's departure and establishes the enduring themes of the work: the happiness of meeting, the sadness of separation, the agony of longing and waiting, and, most of all, the perfection of love in absence that demands the cost of one's ongoing life, as opposed to the relief of death. The Korean word translated in these poems as "love" and "lover" is nim, though nim has many and broad interpretations. Understandably, the identity of Manhae's lover, or "nim" has been the subject of much speculation. Manhae writes in his own preface: "Nim" is not only a human lover but everything yearned for. All beings are nim for the Buddha, and philosophy is the nim of Kant. The spring rain is nim for the rose, and Italy is the nim of Mazzini. Nim is what I love, but it also loves me. If romantic love is freedom, then so is my nim. But aren't you attached to the lofty name of freedom? Don't you also have a nim? If so, it's only your shadow. I write these poems for the young lambs wandering lost on the road home from the darkening plains.

The Best Short Stories of Yi Kwang-Su (PB Version)

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Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1480926272
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Best Short Stories of Yi Kwang-Su (PB Version) written by Chang-Wuk Kang M.D. and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Best Short Stories of Yi Kwang-Su (PB) By Chang-Wuk Kang, M.D. Yi Kwang-Su (1892-1950) has undisputedly produced some of the greatest literary works to ever come out of modern Korea. Here is a collection of his short stories, some of which have never before been published in English. He has written over twenty-eight novels, innumerable short stories, poetry collections, treatises, and countless commentaries from literature to art and science—not to mention culture and humanity—and published in all of the available paper media of his time in Korea. His writing style revolutionized Korean literature and the written language itself. These stories abound with Buddhist-themed meditations on matters of the human spirit and soul, as well as his thoughts on overcoming karmic condemnations. His consistency and the sincerity in his writing are such that one cannot help but believe that he practiced what he preached. He was a moralist, and his writing very didactic. It’s not surprising that he asserts that without religion, one cannot improve one’s character. The last two short stories in this collection were written during the period from shortly before the end of the WWII to Korean Independence in 1948. The chaotic and uncertain situation of Korea, along with harsh criticism, forced him to remove himself to the countryside and to live on a farm like an ordinary farmer, even maintaining an ox. Around that time he also stayed in a temple by the grace of his cousin, Yi Hak-Su. It was a time of meditation and refuge for him. There he worked on his spiritual journey, although he never wore a monk’s robe. He accumulated as many experiences as he could, and then he decided to pursue further education. Chang-Wuk Kang, M.D. translates these works beautifully, richly capturing the essence of Yi Kwang-Su’s style and the culture of Korea. He begins the compilation with a biographical summary of Yi Kwang-Su’s life as well as his political influences and literary impact on Korea. (2016, Paperback, 214 pages)

Mujong (The Heartless)

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Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1942242271
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (422 download)

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Book Synopsis Mujong (The Heartless) by : Kwang-su Yi

Download or read book Mujong (The Heartless) written by Kwang-su Yi and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-31 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Narratives of Nation-Building in Korea

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317464125
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Book Synopsis Narratives of Nation-Building in Korea by : Sheila Miyoshi Jager

Download or read book Narratives of Nation-Building in Korea written by Sheila Miyoshi Jager and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-08 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers new insight on how key historical texts and events in Korea's history have contributed to the formation of the nation's collective consciousness. The work is woven around the unifying premise that particular narrative texts/events that extend back to the premodern period have remained important, albeit transformed, over the modern period and into the contemporary period. The author explores the relationship between gender and nationalism by showing how key narrative topics, such as tales of virtuous womanhood, have been employed, transformed, and re-deployed to make sense of particular national events. Connecting these narratives and historic events to contemporary Korean society, Jager reveals how these "sites" - or reference points - were also successfully re-deployed in the context of the division of Korea and the construction of Korea's modern consciousness.

Tracts on the Modern Reformation of Korean Buddhism

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Publisher : Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism
ISBN 13 :
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Book Synopsis Tracts on the Modern Reformation of Korean Buddhism by : Gwon Sangro

Download or read book Tracts on the Modern Reformation of Korean Buddhism written by Gwon Sangro and published by Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism. This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracts on the Modern Reformation of Korean Buddhism consists of four selected works by three writers: Han Yongun’s 韓龍雲 (1879–1944) Treatise on the Restoration of Korean Buddhism (1913) and “Reform Proposals for Korean Buddhism” (1931); Gwon Sangro’s 權相老(1879–1965) “Treatise on the Reformation of Korean Buddhism” (1912-1913); and Yi Yeongjae’s 李英宰(1900–1927) “Treatise on the Renovation of Korean Buddhism” (1922). These works represent modern Buddhist intellectuals’ awareness of social reality and their new visions at the contemporary turning point of modernization. The Treatise on the Restoration of Korean Buddhism emphasizes on superiority of Buddhism, which encompasses both philosophy and religion, and its modern features on the one hand, and argues for the elimination of past evils and a social renovation on the other. This work stresses the urgent necessity of the modern education, studying abroad, and the secured freedom of thought. In “Reform Proposals for Korean Buddhism,” Han advocates for the establishment of a unified institute, the necessity of translation into the Korean language using the Korean script (Han-geul), and the popularization of Buddhism. In “Treatise on the Reformation of Korean Buddhism,” Gwon insists that Korean Buddhism should overcome the old traditions of dependency or obedience as well as its exclusiveness and be radically reformed in the age of religious competition that is based on social evolution theory. The “Treatise on the Renovation of Korean Buddhism” suggests an institutional direction of Buddhist reformation with a critical awareness of the system under the Temple Ordinances issued by the Japanese Colonial Government. This work also proposes the establishment of a religious constitution and an innovative organization following a democratic model that pursues the separation of power. These works emphasize the necessity of socialization, education, institutional, and economical independence of Buddhism.

Asian and Western Writers in Dialogue

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349049409
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)

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Book Synopsis Asian and Western Writers in Dialogue by : Guy Amirthanayagam

Download or read book Asian and Western Writers in Dialogue written by Guy Amirthanayagam and published by Springer. This book was released on 1982-08-26 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Encyclopedia of the Literature of Empire

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Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438119062
Total Pages : 481 pages
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Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of the Literature of Empire by : Mary Ellen Snodgrass

Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Literature of Empire written by Mary Ellen Snodgrass and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the world's greatest literature about empires and imperialism, including more than 200 entries on writers, classic works, themes, and concepts.

A History of Korean Literature

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139440861
Total Pages : 658 pages
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Book Synopsis A History of Korean Literature by : Peter H. Lee

Download or read book A History of Korean Literature written by Peter H. Lee and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-12-18 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive narrative history of Korean literature. It provides a wealth of information for scholars, students and lovers of literature. Combining both history and criticism the study reflects the latest scholarship and offers a systematic account of the development of all genres. Consisting of twenty-five chapters, it covers twentieth-century poetry, fiction by women and the literature of North Korea. This is a major contribution to the field and a study that will stand for many years as the primary resource for studying Korean literature.

South Korea

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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780788146190
Total Pages : 466 pages
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Book Synopsis South Korea by : Andrea Matles Savada

Download or read book South Korea written by Andrea Matles Savada and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1997-07 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes and analyzes South Korea's political, economic, social and national security systems and institutions. Examines the inter- relationships of those systems and the ways they are shaped by cultural factors. Provides a basic understanding of the observed society, striving for a dynamic portrayal. Particular attention is devoted to the people who make up the society, their origins, dominant beliefs and values, their common interests and the issues on which they are divided, the nature and extent of their involvement with national institutions, and their attitudes toward each other and toward their social system and political order.

Understanding Korean Literature

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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1315285320
Total Pages : 246 pages
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Book Synopsis Understanding Korean Literature by : Hung-Gyu Kim

Download or read book Understanding Korean Literature written by Hung-Gyu Kim and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the development and characteristics of various historical and contemporary genres of Korean literature. It presents explanations on the development of Korean literacy and offers a history of literary criticism, traditional and modern, giving the discussion an historical context.

The Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literature

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Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231507364
Total Pages : 815 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book The Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literature written by Joshua S. Mostow and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2003-07-10 with total page 815 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This extraordinary one-volume guide to the modern literatures of China, Japan, and Korea is the definitive reference work on the subject in the English language. With more than one hundred articles that show how a host of authors and literary movements have contributed to the general literary development of their respective countries, this companion is an essential starting point for the study of East Asian literatures. Comprehensive thematic essays introduce each geographical section with historical overviews and surveys of persistent themes in the literature examined, including nationalism, gender, family relations, and sexuality. Following the thematic essays are the individual entries: over forty for China, over fifty for Japan, and almost thirty for Korea, featuring everything from detailed analyses of the works of Tanizaki Jun'ichiro and Murakami Haruki, to far-ranging explorations of avant-garde fiction in China and postwar novels in Korea. Arrayed chronologically, each entry is self-contained, though extensive cross-referencing affords readers the opportunity to gain a more synoptic view of the work, author, or movement. The unrivaled opportunities for comparative analysis alone make this unique companion an indispensable reference for anyone interested in the burgeoning field of Asian literature. Although the literatures of China, Japan, and Korea are each allotted separate sections, the editors constantly kept an eye open to those writers, works, and movements that transcend national boundaries. This includes, for example, Chinese authors who lived and wrote in Japan; Japanese authors who wrote in classical Chinese; and Korean authors who write in Japanese, whether under the colonial occupation or because they are resident in Japan. The waves of modernization can be seen as reaching each of these countries in a staggered fashion, with eddies and back-flows between them then complicating the picture further. This volume provides a vivid sense of this dynamic interplay.

Insurrections of the Mind, the Buddhist Silence of Han Yong-un

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
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Download or read book Insurrections of the Mind, the Buddhist Silence of Han Yong-un written by Gregory Nicholas Evon and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Building a Heaven on Earth

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Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 082485327X
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Book Synopsis Building a Heaven on Earth by : Albert L. Park

Download or read book Building a Heaven on Earth written by Albert L. Park and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2014-12-31 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why and how did Korean religious groups respond to growing rural poverty, social dislocation, and the corrosion of culture caused by forces of modernization under strict Japanese colonial rule (1910–1945)? Questions about religion's relationship and response to capitalism, industrialization, urbanization, and secularization lie at the heart of understanding the intersection between colonialism, religion, and modernity in Korea. Yet, getting answers to these questions has been a challenge because of narrow historical investigations that fail to study religious processes in relation to political, economic, social, and cultural developments. In Building a Heaven on Earth, Albert L. Park studies the progressive drives by religious groups to contest standard conceptions of modernity and forge a heavenly kingdom on the Korean peninsula to relieve people from fierce ruptures in their everyday lives. The results of his study will reconfigure the debates on colonial modernity, the origins of faith-based social activism in Korea, and the role of religion in a modern world. Building a Heaven on Earth, in particular, presents a compelling story about the determination of the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA), the Presbyterian Church, and the Ch'ŏndogyo to carry out large-scale rural movements to form a paradise on earth anchored in religion, agriculture, and a pastoral life. It is a transnational story of leaders from these three groups leaning on ideas and systems from countries, such as Denmark, France, Japan, and the United States, to help them reform political, economic, social, and cultural structures in colonial Korea. This book shows that these religious institutions provided discursive and material frameworks that allowed for an alternative form of modernity that featured new forms of agency, social organization, and the nation. In so doing, Building a Heaven on Earth repositions our understandings of modern Korean history.

Celebrate Your Divinity

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Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1450045448
Total Pages : 695 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (5 download)

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Book Synopsis Celebrate Your Divinity by : Orest Bedrij

Download or read book Celebrate Your Divinity written by Orest Bedrij and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2005-12-27 with total page 695 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visit the author's website at www.celebrateyourdivinity.com This is a visionary work of monumental proportions; a masterpiece of man’s highest thoughts and insights. — Prof. Peter Kotzer, President Washington Natural Philosophy Institute Orest Bedrij’s book is a mind-stretching, spirit-elevating adventure. His revelation of Oneness is simple and profound. — Dr. Marilyn Wilhelm, Educator Founder/Director Wilhelm Scholê International By integrating spiritual validations with scientific evidence placing one upon the other in verification after verification Orest Bedrij arrives at an amalgam of the one single fundamental concept: ‘1’... “a holy vision of you,” “the nature of God,” and “the theory of everything.” — Dr. Tibor Horvath, SJ, Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto, Founder/General Editor: Ultimate Reality and Meaning This book is a passionate and timely invitation to discover the God within each of us and the Oneness of all Creation... a glimpse into (the) unifying dimension of the Eternal One. — Barbara Benjamin, Director Intuitive Discovery, Inc. Orest Bedrij is the rare thinker who sees the unity and connections between different fields of human knowledge... his vision is thrilling and comprehensive, and provides an element—hope—that is utterly vital for our time. — Dr. Larry Dossey, MD, Author, Space, Time and Medicine; Reinventing Medicine; Beyond Illness; Recovering the Soul Here is your breakthrough to God—your joyous transformation from believing in God to knowing your divine ONENESS Cover Design by Andrew Patapis

Yi Kwang-su and Modern Korean Literature, Mujŏng

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Publisher : Cornell University - Cornell East Asia Series
ISBN 13 : 9781885445278
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (452 download)

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Download or read book Yi Kwang-su and Modern Korean Literature, Mujŏng written by Ann Sung-hi Lee and published by Cornell University - Cornell East Asia Series. This book was released on 2005 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yi Kwang-su (1892-1950) was one of the pioneers of modern Korean literature. When the serialization of Mujông (The Heartless) began in 1917, it was an immediate sensation, and it occupies a prominent place in the Korean literary canon. The Heartless is the story of a love triangle among three youths during the Japanese occupation. Yi Hyông-sik is a young man in his mid-twenties who is teaching English at a middle school in Seoul. Brilliant but also shy and indecisive, he is torn between two women. Kim Sôn-hyông is from a wealthy Christian family; she has just graduated from a modern, Western-style school and is planning on continuing her studies in the United States. Pak Yông-ch'ae is a musically gifted young woman who was raised in a traditional Confucian manner; due to family misfortune, she has become a kisaeng but remains devoted to Hyông-sik whom she knew as a child. The Heartless goes beyond the level of romantic melodrama and uses these characters to depict Korea's struggles with modern culture and national identity.A long critical introduction discusses Yi Kwang-su's life and work from his birth in 1892 to the publication of his first novel The Heartless in 1917. It contains in-depth analyses of the novel, Yi Kwang-su's literary theory, and early short stories.