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

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.

Author: Ross King
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 10/31/2016
Pages: 704
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.45lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.00w x 1.80d
ISBN: 9781442647336

About the Author
Ross King is a Professor of Korean and head of the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia.
Si Nae Park is an assistant professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University.
James Scarth Gale was a Canadian Presbyterian missionary, educator, and Bible translator in Korea.

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