#  New Edited Volume by Professor Si Nae Park 

 





February 06, 2017

 

 

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 “Score One for the Dancing Girl, and Other Selections from the Kimun Ch'onghwa: A Story Collection from Nineteenth-Century Korea”  
  
Translated by James Scarth Gale  
Edited by Ross King and Si Nae Park  
Annotations by Donguk Kim  
Published by University of Toronto Press  
  
Description from University of Toronto Press website: *Score One for the Dancing Girl* presents more than a hundred stories from an early-nineteenth-century collection of *yadam* stories, the *Kimun ch’onghwa* (“Compendium of Records of Hearsay”). Prose tales that feature historical people and places but may also include fantastical elements, the yadam stories in this volume feature ghosts and magic, courtesans and sex, and court politics. They constitute both an entertaining literary collection and a rich treasure trove of information about life in seventeenth and eighteenth-century Korea.  
  
The first volume in an ongoing series of translations of classic Korean literature by the Canadian missionary James Scarth Gale (1863–1937), *Score One for the Dancing Girl* includes the original literary Sinitic (*hanmun*) text and Gale’s English translation. Both the hanmun and English are extensively annotated. Introductory essays by Ross King and Si Nae Park discuss the *yadam* genre, Gale’s life and career, and the ways in which his background as a Christian missionary affected the translations.  
  
Si Nae Park is Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University.



 

 

 



 

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