ASIA 347 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Gim Manjung, Hanja, Yangban
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In this and other ways the book is profoundly. Confucian, though the overall message is buddhist. what is the overall message of the novel? e. richard rutt: a nine-cloud dream is the best of old korean book-length stories. Kim kichung: a nine-cloud dream is a work of pure escapism. 7 g. kim man-jung once compared korean poets" attempts to express their inner feelings in classical. Chinese to a parrot"s attempt to imitate human speech ; why, then, did he choose to write a nine-
