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Peace Under Heaven

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Peace Under Heaven

  • Author(s)

    Ch'ae Man-Sik채만식

  • Translator(s)

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  • Publisher

    Routledge Routledge

  • Country

    UNITED KINGDOM

  • Language

    English(English)

  • Year Published

    1992

  • Category

    Literary Fiction 소설

  • Target User

    Adult 성인

  • Period

    Modern 근대

Description 작품 소개

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.Reference : Routledge. "Peace Under Heaven", https://www.routledge.com/Peace-Under-Heaven--A-Modern-Korean-Novel-A-Modern-Korean/Chae-Chun/p/book/9781563241727. accessed 31 Oct 2023.

Author Bio 작가 소개

Ch'ae Man-Sik

Ch'ae Man-Sik채만식

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.Reference : Routledge. "Peace Under Heaven", https://www.routledge.com/Peace-Under-Heaven--A-Modern-Korean-Novel-A-Modern-Korean/Chae-Chun/p/book/9781563241727. accessed 31 Oct 2023.

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