Peace Under Heaven: A Modern Korean Novel
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A01=Kyung-Ja Chun
A01=Man-Sik Chae
Author_Kyung-Ja Chun
Author_Man-Sik Chae
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Beef Broth
black comedy literature
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capitalist modernization
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Confucian social change
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County Magistracy
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Frigid Bitch
gender oppression studies
Ginger Root
Government General Building
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Great Singers
Honor Guard
Japanese colonial Korea
Korean colonial satire analysis
magistrate
Mahjong Game
Manchurian Incident
Millionaire's Manager
Provisional Attachment
Red Ticket
rice
Roast Chestnuts
singers
Snap Back
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Unwelcome Guests
urban landlord dynamics
Vest Pocket
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Western Suit
Wild Boar
Wooden Headrest
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781563241727
- Weight: 362g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 31 May 1993
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Originally 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.
Man-Sik Ch’ae, Kyung-Ja Chun, Carter J. Eckert
