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Title

My Korea : forty years without a horsehair hat / by Kevin O'Rourke.

Author

O'Rourke, Kevin, 1939-2020

Publication

• Kent : Renaissance Books, 2013.
• ©2013.

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Details

Description

xxvi, 314 pages : one portrait; 22 cm

Alternative Title

• Forty years without a horsehair hat
• 40 years without a horsehair hat

Subjects

• O'Rourke, Kevin D 1927-
• Korean poetry
• Korea (South) > Social life and customs

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine generated contents note: 1. Korea In The 1960S -- Two Ascetics Meet On Sosul Mountain -- So Chongju -- 2. Columbans -- Salute -- Men Of Old -- Sanctity -- Spring Scents -- Wisdom -- Smart Bird -- Painting The Great Worship Hall In Naeso-Sa -- So Chongju -- 3. Learning The Ropes -- Evening On The Mountain: Song To The Moon In The Well -- Yi Kyubo -- Good Times In Koryo -- So Chongju -- In The Blood -- 4. Cultural Adaptation -- Directions -- Hosaeng's Tale -- Pak Chiwon -- 5. In At The Deep End -- Yangban's Tale -- Pak Chiwon -- Ramifications Of The Yangban's Tale -- Conclusions From The Study Of The Yangban Concept -- New Year's Day: Year Of The Dog -- 6. Cultural Experience: Where To Begin -- Tan Gun Myth So -- Chongju -- Figure In The Distance -- Chong Chak -- 7. Confucian Monolith -- Song In Praise Of Spring -- Chong Kugin -- Three Anecdotes -- Mountain May Be High -- Yang Saon -- Two Bulb -- Pear Painting -- Yi Tal -- She's Right, You're Right So -- Chongju -- Spring Day -- So Kojong -- Yulgok And T'Oegye -- Even Ignorant Men Seek Perfection -- Yi Hwang -- Songgang Chong Ch'ol -- Autumn Night -- Chong Ch'ol -- Yulgok And Songgang -- So Chongju -- Hunmin Ka, Puui Moja -- Chong Ch'ol -- Kosan Yun Sondo -- Lazy I Am -- Yun Sondo -- Has The Worst Of Winter Passed? -- Yun Sondo -- Obu Sashi Sa (The Fisherman's Calendar) -- Yun Sondo -- Strutting Their Stuff -- I'Ll Never Forget The Boy -- Yi Chongbo -- Look At That Girl In Blouse And Patterned Skirt -- Kim Sujang -- Of Flying Birds And Beasts That Crawl -- Anonymous -- It Is The Third Watch -- Anonymous -- Song Of Right And Wrong -- Kim Sakkat -- Marok Biographies: Ma Chun's Tale -- So Kiwon -- I'M Building A Straw Hut Beneath A Rock -- Yun Sondo -- Confucius Goes Modern -- Tree Is Diseased -- Chong Ch'ol -- Inculturation At The End Of Choson -- Swinging Twenties -- Cafe France -- Chong Chiyong -- Marok Biographies: Ma Yong's Tale -- So Kiwon -- Impromptu Song -- So Kojong -- Honourable Forsythia -- Confucianism Today -- Playing Alone -- Ku Sang -- It Faired And Rained Again -- Kim Shisup -- Three Pines -- Crane Painting -- Yi Tal -- Widow Kim -- Plum -- So Kojong -- Ch'usa Kim Chonghui -- So Chongju -- 8. Choson Bureaucracy -- 9. Buddhist Ingredient -- In Chamshil -- Kim Shisup -- Jubilee Temple -- Paek Kwanghun -- Tiny Room In Flower Sage Temple -- Chong Chisang -- Dialogue Cho -- Byunghwa -- Wolmyong The Monk -- So Chongju -- Song Of Three Dreams -- Sosan Taesa -- Diplomatic Corps Goes Buddhist -- Lodging In The Head Monk's Quarters -- Hae-U-So -- Shilla Future Expertise -- So Chongju -- Blue Deer -- Pak Mog'wol -- Written On The Monk's Scroll In Pong'un-Sa Temple -- Ch'oe Kyongch'ang -- Kamno-Sa Temple -- Kim Pushik -- Visit To The Hermitage Of Master Ka -- Yi Kyubo -- Shadow Is Reflected In The Water -- Chong Chol -- Old Temple -- Cho Chihun -- Fateful Blow -- Nun's Dance -- Cho Chihun -- Making Of The Great Buddha Image At Hwangnyong-Sa Temple -- So Chongju -- Way -- Hyegun -- Paekp'a And Ch'usa -- So Chongju -- Epiphany -- Anonymous -- Rip Your Black Robe Asunder -- Anonymous -- Destination -- Cho Byunghwa -- Ritual Service For A Dead Sister -- Wolmyong -- Death Song -- Ch'ungji -- Like The Wind Leaving The Lotus -- So Chongju -- 10. Exclusivity Myths -- Universality Of Han -- Tanjong's Han -- Cuckoo Calls; The Moon Is Low On The Mountain -- Tanjong -- Cho Kwangjo's Han -- Hung -- Hung In Poetry -- I Nodded Off: I Lost My Fishing Pole -- Anonymous -- Big Spring -- Ko Un -- Kim Inhu's Perverted Hung -- Universality Of Hung -- Mot -- Mot And The Beautiful -- Mot And P'Ungnyu -- Azaleas And Mot -- Exponents Of P'Ungnyu-Mot -- Universality Of Mot -- 11. Chilmajae Songs -- So Chongju -- Tidal Wave -- Singer -- Exceptional Pressure In The Urinary Pump Of The Esteemed Wife Of Squire Yi -- Horse Blood -- Kite Contest -- Bride -- Adultery And The Well -- Chaegon The Immortal -- Gourd Flower Time -- Honey Bucket -- Mrs. Greatwater: The Sighs Of A Childless Woman -- Women Under The Zelkova -- 12. Korea's Greatest Asset -- Woman -- Kang Ung'gyo -- Going To The Bank -- Woman -- Cho Byunghwa -- Interacting -- Woman In Crisis -- Ko Chonghui -- Non Person Saddles His Horse And Rides Off In All Directions -- Grass -- Namgung Pyok -- Intrepidity Gets It Wrong -- Love And Marriage -- Old Flame -- Ch'oe Yongmi -- Sin Of A Smile -- Kim Tonghwan -- Kashiri -- Koryo Kayo -- It Goes Without Saying -- Han Yong'un -- Light Of Heaven -- Sun -- So Chongju -- Korean Women In History -- Song Of The Orioles -- Pre-Shilla Song -- Paekche P'Iri Pipe -- So Chongju -- Love In Shilla -- Girl Getting Married -- So Chongju -- Ch'oyong's Song -- Hyangga -- Getting Pregnant And Having Babies -- So Chongju -- At The Rising Of The Ch'usok Moon -- So Chongju -- Love In Koryo -- Spring Pervades The Pavilion -- Koryo Kayo -- Chongup Sa -- Koryo Kayo -- Song Of P'Yongyang -- Koryo Kayo -- Love In Choson -- Hwang Chini -- I'Ll Cut A Piece From The Waist -- Hwang Chini -- Hwang Chini -- So Chongju -- Shinsaimdang -- Thoughts Of My Mother -- Shinsaimdang -- Ho Nansorhon -- To My Lord Reading In His Study -- Ho Nansorhon -- Picking Lotus Seeds -- Ho Nansorhon -- Yi Okpong -- Heart Of A Lonely Woman -- Yi Okpong -- Sorrow Of Parting -- Yi Okpong -- Yi Maech'ang -- Autumn Thoughts -- Yi Maech'ang -- Rhododendron -- So Chongju -- Ch'ae Chegong's Mother -- Music Of What Happens -- Lady Immortal Strikes Out Boldly: The Year Of The Rat -- For An Unidentified You -- Ch'oe Sungja -- Kim Tallae From Taegu -- Love -- Chon Ponggon -- On The Subway -- Passing Map'o Market -- Years From Now -- Kim Sowol -- 13. Tales Of The Immortals -- Among The Immortals -- What's In A Name? -- So Chongju -- King's Pride -- Based On A So Chongju Poem -- Kwon Kim -- Based On A So Chongju Poem -- How Chong Mongju Died -- What About Living This Way -- Yi Pangwon -- Tanshim Ka -- Chong Mongju -- Yi Songgye's Heaven -- So Chongju -- Dogs Fighting In Muddy Fields -- Chong Tojon -- Sejong And His Two Brothers -- So Chongju -- Naming Of Shiksadong -- Smile Of The Ever-Ready -- So Chongju -- Dead As Living -- So Chongju -- Moon Is Bright Tonight. I Sit Alone -- Colour White -- So Chongju -- Toe Of The Poson And Komushin -- So Chongju -- Forgotten Immortal, James Scarth Gale -- Fiddling Immortal Strikes A Magic Note -- Plum Blossom -- Kang Huian -- Immortal Comes To Dublin -- Resting At Shihu Inn -- Yi Kyubo -- Immortal Ku Sang -- Shame -- Ku Sang -- Immortal Cardinal Kim Suhwan -- Gentle Into That Good Night -- For Sr. Zita -- 14. At The Cultural Coalface: Immersion, Submersion? -- Take Your Pick -- Let There Be Light -- This Old Sick Heart -- Kim Sujang -- Circus Comes To Town -- Decade-In-The-Orient Men -- Word For The Wise -- Episcopal Clout -- Outside The Confessional -- Greetings -- Fortune Teller -- Episcopal Solicitude -- Ch'usok: The Harvest Moon Festival -- One True Church -- Written On The Upper Storey Of Yu Song Post House -- Yi Kyubo -- Pain Of It All -- At The Bishop's Table -- Association Of Images -- Parish Priest Bamboozles The Local Gendarmerie -- Seoul Cabby Objects -- Lady Of Perpetual Succour -- Marriage Tribunal -- Poshint'ang -- Poem Of Flower Stone Pavilion -- Yi Yulgok -- No Bones -- Early Morning Aggravation -- Priests Not Quite Forever -- Invitation -- 15. Nine Priest Immortals -- Burying Mike Bransfield -- Passing (In Memory Of Sean Quinn) -- Mystery -- Good Friday: After A Poem By An Old Master (In Memory Of Phil Crosbie) -- Purest Celadon (In Memory Of Hub Hayward) -- February 2008 (In Memory Of Wally Nugent) -- Farewell To Jack Roche -- Death Song (Grieving For Noel Ryan) -- Granite Man (In Memory Of Tommy Comerford) -- Cold Eye (In Memory Of Aidan Murray) -- 16. Seeking The Way -- Looking For The Cow -- Han Yong'un -- All My Life -- Kyeshim-Sa -- Open The Heart Temple -- Savouring The Moment -- Chang Andong Chest -- Evening: Self Portrait -- Cho Byunghwa -- Summer Clouds -- Chong Chisang -- Night Rain On The Xiaoxiang -- Yi Illo -- Antidote To Avarice -- Is A Little Learning A Dangerous Thing? -- 17. For Those Of Us With Less Than Immortal Status -- Spring Rain -- Silence -- Speaking My Mind In Sickness -- Kim Shisup -- Ruffled Feathers -- Autumn Night Falls On The River -- Prince Wolsan -- Ilsan Yangban Fails The Immortals' Exam -- Night Of Wind And Snow -- At The Closing Of Kwandaeri -- Belch And A Half -- No Immortals In Pusan -- Sunrise -- Riyakha -- My Kingdom For A Phone -- Things Are Not Like They Used To Be -- Spring -- Reading The Paper -- What A Man! -- Moving House -- Rosslare Birds -- 18. Learning Korean -- Afterword -- Kumgang San: The Diamond Mountains.

ISBN

• 189882309X
• 9781898823094

OCLC

• 833574107
• SCSB-12100640

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library