Man-Sik Ch'ae, Kyung-Ja Chun, Carter J. Eckert

Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 Master Yun's Route Home; Chapter 2 Getting a Free Ride: A Feat of Skill; Chapter 3 The Festival of Great Singers in the Countries of the West; Chapter 4 Let Everyone Else Go to Hell; Chapter 5 A Slum of the Heart; Chapter 6 Reports from the Front Line; Chapter 7 And Oxen Breed Iron ...; Chapter 8 Three Old Coins and ...; Chapter 9 Frugality for Its Own Sake; Chapter 10 An Anecdote of No Significance; Chapter 11 A Surplus of People and a Shortage of Goods; Chapter 12 A Brief History of the Universal Trade; Chapter 13 Though the Ax Handle Rot... (Or, Latter-day Immortals at Play); Chapter 14 The Sun Sets on the Great Wall; Chapter 15 Seek Not Far for the Agent of Your Doom;

In this satirical novel, set in Japanese-occupied Korea, Master Yun, embodying the traditional ambitions of a standard Korean paterfamilias, by being projected fast forward into a modern urban environment, caricatures the increasing irrelevance of Confucian mores to 20th-century social reality.