WEATHERHEAD BOOKS ON ASIA
Ch’ae Manshik. Sunset: A Ch’ae Manshik Reader
Edited and translated by Bruce Fulton and Ju-Chan Fulton.(2017)
“Sunset offers a wonderful introduction to the wide variety of writing being published in colonial and postcolonial Korea, all through the lens of the writer Ch’ae Manshik. Ch’ae is best known and loved today for his novels, but here we rediscover him as a man of many talents, whose work managed to cross the lines between popular style and social critique with great success.”
– Janet Poole, University of Toronto
“A remarkable, indispensable addition to the growing English-language canon of modern Korean literature, masterfully selected and translated. Eighteen works by a virtuoso writer of satire give us extraordinary insight into various aspects of the Korean peninsula’s modernity, through Ch’ae’s signature style: darkly humorous and penetrating critique of all things and every viewpoint.”
– Jin-kyung Lee, author of Service Economies: Militarism, Sex Work and Migrant Labor in South Korea
