Peace Under Heaven
Chae Man-sik (1902-1950). Korean title: 태평천하.
First line: “Chuseok has come and gone, the autumn deepens by the day, and the sun is quick to set: it is sundown on one such day.”
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Contents
- 1. A Picture of Yun Jikwon Returning Home
- 2. The Art of Riding Free
- 3. A Grand Recital of Master Singers, Western Style
- 4. Let the Whole World Perish, All but Us
- 5. The Slum of the Heart
- 6. A Ringside Report
- 7. Coin Begets Coin
- 8. Three Old Brass Coins, and…
- 9. Thrift as a Pleasurable Pastime
- 10. A Record Without a Title
- 11. On the Glut of Humans and Simultaneous Shortage of Goods, and Other Matters
- 12. Half a Chronicle of a World Enterprise
- 13. Though the Axe Handle Rot… (That Is, One Scene from an Immortals’ Game of Our Times)
- 14. The Great Wall at Sundown
- 15. He Who Will Destroy Qin Is Hu
- Notes