Description:
Score One for the Dancing Girl presents more than a hundred stories from an early-nineteenth-century collection of yadam stories, the Kimun ch'onghwa ("Compendium of Records of Hearsay").
Brief description:
Ross King is a Professor of Korean and head of the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia.
Review Quotes:
" Score One for the Dancing Girl is a delight to read. James Scarth Gale's eloquent and entertaining translations from the Kimun ch'onghwa make a unique contribution to the corpus of translated literature from East Asia."
--Janet Poole, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto"With their detailed, realistic narrations, the stories in Score One for the Dancing Girl offer many insights into the social habits and material life of all strata of society in mid-to late Choson times. King and Park's notes to both the Gale and to the original Chinese language text are excellent."
--Marion Eggert, Department of East Asian Studies, Ruhr-Universität Bochum