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Book SynopsisThis work presents the unpublished and largely unknown writings of the missionary James Scarth Gale, one of the most important scholars and translators in modern Korean history.
Table of ContentsSeries Preface Illustrations Tables Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Pen Pictures of Old Korea Korean Songs and Verses Eternal Life Tobacco in Korea Concerning the Occult A Note of Warning On and Off the Street Car A Sample of Korean Labour Song Marriage in Korea Pak’s Experiences The Mystery of It The Family Line Korea’s Electric Shocks “Broken Earthenware” Unconscious Korea Korean Literature A New Style of Courtship Korea’s Receding Pantheon Stone Fights Standing for One’s Rights That Old Dragon Happy Yi My Lord the Elephant The Displeasure of the Rain God Korean New Year’s The Korean Woman Korea’s Preparation for the Bible The Waning Eunuch A Freak of Language An Affair of State Private Minting A New Korean The Burning of the Temple A Royal Funeral Belong Small Boxer The Foreign Squeezer The Awful Kim Exit Kim The Opening of War Prospective All Good Things Are Three Japan’s Task in Korea Where Are We? As Regards the Fate Part II: Old Corea Corean Literature and History Corea’s Noted Women Yowa Ssi Ahwang and Yoyong T’aeim and T’aesa Wang Sogun Princess Yang The Corean’s View of God The Mirror of the Heart The Worship of Confucius Corea’s Filial Piety How She Moved to God Father and Son Social and Allied Subjects Prohibition in Corea Tea Tobacco in Corea Corean Paper Corean Clothes Corean Artists Corean Chess Teeth Ancient Remains The Tombs of Uhyolli Ancient Burial Remains When Kings Die Hollanders in Corea Superstitions Guardians of the Year One of the Immortals The Spirit Medium Short Stories The Spoiled Boy Yi Changgon A Question of Conscience Worthy Prince and Lucky Girls Powers of Imitation The Tartar Hunter Miscellaneous The Dancing Girl Music Corean Transportation Flies The Rainy Season A Trip to Sorae Beach Poems My Shadow by Yi Talch’ung Clouds and Mountains by Yi Talch’ung The Good and Bad of It by Yi Talch’ung The Falling Flowers by Won Kam The Joys of Nature by Yi Talch’ung A Spell against the Tiger by Hong Yangho Tribute to a Needle by Mrs. Yoo The Wild Goose by Hong Yangho A Far-Eastern Francis of Assisi by Song Hyon The Snow by Yi Chehyon The Cackling Priest by Yi Chesin The Story of Unyong Conclusion Bibliography Index
