Description: "One of the most important and celebrated works of premodern Korean prose fiction, Kæumo sinhwa (New Tales of the Golden Turtle) is a collection of five tales of the strange artfully written in literary Chinese by Kim Sisæup (1435-1493). Kim was a major intellectual and poet of the early Chosæon dynasty (1392-1897), and this book is widely recognized as marking the beginning of classical fiction in Korea"--
Brief description: Dennis Wuerthner is assistant professor of East Asian literature in the Department of World Languages and Literatures, Boston University.