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Ch'ae Man-Sik’s literary debut came in 1924 with the publication in Joseon Literary World of the short story “Toward the Three Paths” . His early stories and plays were written from a class-sensitive perspective, and with the publication in 1932 of “Ready-made Life” , he began to focus his attention on the plight of intellectuals in an era of colonial oppression, a subject matter he continued to pursue in such works as “An Intellectual and Mung-bean Cake” and “My Idiot Uncle” . Arrested by the colonial government in 1938 for his affiliations with Society for Reading , Chae was released on the condition that he participates in the pro-Japanese literary organization, Korean Literary Society for Patriotism , a stipulation to which he duly complied after his release. In December 1942, for example, Chae Mansik inspected the Japanese Army's Manchurian Front and wrote a celebratory account of what he had observed there. After Korea’s liberation from the Japanese rule, however, he reproached the pro-Japanese actions of Korean intellectuals at the end of the colonial period, including his own, in such works as “The Sinner Against the Nation” and “Path of History” . Until his death on June 11, 1950, shortly before the outbreak of Korean War, Chae produced satires of contemporary society in post-Liberation Korea. “Constable Maeng” and “Story of a Rice Paddy” captures in an especially vivid manner the turbulence and confusion of a society embarked on the difficult process of rebuilding the nation. Chae Mansik’s collected works were published by Changjak gwa bipyeongsa in 1989.

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Ch'ae Man-Sik

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