Kang Kyong-ae: From Wonso Pond Tr Samuel Perry Feminist Press, 2009 Originally published 1934 in the Donga Ilbo It’s the 1930s. In colonial Korea, economic development brings factories and work to Incheon, Seoul and other centres of population, while in the countryside the semi-feudal lifestyle continues. The local yangban plots which local lass to deflower … [Read More]
Translator: Samuel Perry
Selected translations
- Anthology: Zainichi Literature ed John Lie, Univ of California Berkeley Institute of East Asian Studies 2018
- Anthology: Rat Fire: Korean Stories from the Japanese Empire ed Theodore Hughes, Jae-yong Kim, Jin-kyung Lee, Sang-kyung Lee, Cornell East Asia Series 2013
- Kang Kyong-ae: From Wonso Pond tr Samuel Perry, Feminist Press 2009