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| Data.No. | 304 |
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Annotation | The Grass Roof
hard cover, cloth,8vo.367 pages.
First edition was published in 1931.This book has won unanimous admiration.
"From intaglios of rural Korea the author turns toa bold panorama of Far Eastern
exprience.For color,vigor,and vitality,it puts to shame the current literature of Japan and China-New York Times" /The Human Storyof one man told sincerely and frankly with a wealth of detail which makes a picture both vivid and moving
.A human document of the greatest value-New York Herald Tribune"/ "For history,for
social change,and for simple human interest the book has a strong appeal-Philadelphia Public Ledger"/ "It sis almost the only book that can introduce us to a virtually unknown people .It is interesting,important.memorable-The New Public".
The author was born in Korea,the Hermit Kingdom,in 1903,in an isolated grosaa-roofed vilage,like the one described in this stroy.
He was taught by his uncles,who were poets,and therefore men of consequence in the village.From them he learned the Confucian doctrines and Korean customs-and these until he was twelve.At that age he went to Tokyo and spent four years in a Japanese school.
When he returned to Korea he was not the same person:he had became imbued with a intense desire to learn all he could about Western civilization and ideas. For two years he studied and taught in a missionary school.In 1919 he participated in the revolution against Japanese domination ,and spent one year in jail.
A year later came the chance to go to harvard,and from 1920 on he has libed in this country.He disd postgraduate work at Harvard,and for two years prepared
and secured articles on Oriental subjetcts for the Encyclopaedia Britannica.In 1929 he was appointed lecture on comparative literature in the English Department of New York University.
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| Author | Younghill Kang |
| Publisher | Charles Scribner's Sons,N.Y. |
| Pub.Year(s) | 1947 |
| Language | English |
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