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Impressions of Laura VanArendonk Baugh’s Traditional Japanese Novella Kitsune-Tsuki
Another American author featured as a speaker at the recent virtual World Fantasy Con 2020 is Laura VanArendonk Baugh, and when I saw she had a few books set in Japan, I was intrigued since I love the East Asian fox myth and have written some far less traditional books featuring them myself. The first […]
The Life and Works of Korean Author Kim Dongni
This year on my main blog, the Ice Pine Palace (see links in the left column here for my affiliate blogs), my Literati Corner selection will be a novella and short stories by a very famous Korean author. Kim Dongni (김동리金東里) was born in 1913 in the historical city of Gyeongju in North Gyeongsang Province, […]
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The Life and Works of Korean Author Kim Dongni
This year on my main blog, the Ice Pine Palace (see links in the right column here for my affiliate blogs), my Literati Corner selection will be a novella and short stories by a very famous Korean author. Kim Dongni (김동리金東里) was born in 1913 in the historical city of Gyeongju in North Gyeongsang Province, […]
Sohyeon After Midnight Book Reading Videos and Character Roll-Call
I had some time this weekend to prepare a few videos for everyone to enjoy. The first video is my character roll-call, which I made for my readers who have been struggling to pronounce my characters’ names in a couple of my novels. Character Roll-Call: Then I prepared a three-part series of me reading selections […]
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False and True Form Combine When the Jade Hare is Captured – Journey to the West, Part 6
We’ve finally reached the final volume of Journey to the West in our series for the year, and it covers chapters 84 through 100. The first line is rather fun, given how prevalent the idea that Sanzang the monk is … Continue reading
A White Soul Hangs, A Mirror In the Sky, Reflected Whole in the Mountain Stream – Journey to the West, Part 5
As I cover volume 5 of Wu Cheng’en’s Journey to the West in my bilingual Chinese-English edition, the story arc that began in the last chapter of the last volume had Sanzang and his disciples cleaning up the putrid lane … Continue reading
Even the Vegetable Spirits Had Taken Him Along For a Night of Elegant Conversation – Journey to the West, Part 4
In this post, I will cover volume 4 out of 6 of Wu Cheng’en’s Journey to the West in my bilingual Chinese-English edition, which includes chapters 51 through 67, translated by W.J.F. Jenner. Before I get back to the story, … Continue reading
Pure Yields to Foul and Foul to Pure as Fate’s Wheel Turns – Journey to the West, Part 3
In this post I will cover volume 3 of Wu Cheng’en’s Journey to the West in my edition, which includes chapters 34 through 50. The story arc where we left off in volume 2 with Monkey stuck under a mountain … Continue reading
After Several Lives in the Sea of Suffering She Had Purified the Waves – Journey to the West, Part 2
Now that I am finished working on my Korean textbook, I can catch up on the Literati corner as well. This post will cover volume 2 of Journey to the West in my edition, which includes chapters 16 through 33. … Continue reading
When An Egg Was Turned Into A Monkey To Complete the Great Way – Journey to the West, Part 1
This year, my Literati Corner selection will be Journey to the West by Wu Cheng’en. I will be splitting it into six parts that will be reviewed in posts between each of my regularly scheduled series. This novel is at … Continue reading
The Marriage Proposal and the Mysterious Rescuer – Mujŏng (The Heartless), Part 3
This post will wrap up our look at Kwang-su Yi’s novella Mujŏng (The Heartless). As the old woman and Hyŏng-sik race to P’yŏngyang to stop Yŏng-ch’ae from committing suicide, Hyŏng-sik remember how he was nearly raped by a group of … Continue reading
Under the Influence of the Cinnamon Moon Flower – Mujŏng (The Heartless), Part 2
As we continue our look at the Korean novella Mujŏng by Kwang-su Yi, we flash back to Yŏng-ch’ae’s painful situation after selling herself at age 13 to become a kisaeng (Korean geisha). This part is very ugly and brutal, and … Continue reading
A Kisaeng from P’yŏngyang Disrupts a School – Mujŏng (The Heartless), Part 1
For my final series of 2016, I want to cover another East Asian classic, this time Korea’s Mujŏng (The Heartless), a novella written by Kwang-su Yi. Mujŏng was serialized in 1917, and it runs about 270 pages. You can purchase … Continue reading
Join My Sobs to the Fading Toll of the Bell – Tale of Genji, Part 6
This is the moment we’ve all been waiting for since the beginning of the year, the final post in my series on The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shibiku. If you’ve made it here with me and read all 1,200 … Continue reading
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