{"product_id":"9781487510497","title":"Score One for the Dancing Girl, and Other Selections from the 'Kimun ch'onghwa': A Story Collection from Nineteenth-century Korea","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eScore One for the Dancing Girl \u003c\/em\u003epresents more than a hundred stories from an early-nineteenth-century collection of \u003cem\u003eyadam \u003c\/em\u003estories, the \u003cem\u003eKimun ch’onghwa\u003c\/em\u003e (“Compendium of Records of Hearsay”). Prose tales that feature historical people and places but may also include fantastical elements, the \u003cem\u003eyadam\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first volume in an ongoing series of translations of classic Korean literature by the Canadian missionary James Scarth Gale (1863–1937), \u003cem\u003eScore One for the Dancing Girl\u003c\/em\u003e includes the original literary Sinitic (\u003cem\u003ehanmun\u003c\/em\u003e) text and Gale’s English translation. Both the \u003cem\u003ehanmun\u003c\/em\u003e and English are extensively annotated.  Introductory essays by Ross King and Si Nae Park discuss the \u003cem\u003eyadam\u003c\/em\u003e genre, Gale’s life and career, and the ways in which his background as a Christian missionary affected the translations.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47165215998192,"sku":"9781487510497","price":110.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781487510497_p0.jpg?v=1763636174","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781487510497","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}