Score One for the Dancing Girl, and Other Selections from the Kimun Ch'onghwa: A Story Collection from Nineteenth-Century Korea

by Ross King and Si Nae Park

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442647337
• ISBN13: 9781442647336
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 704 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.0" x 9.2"