{"id":15014,"date":"2025-06-27T15:00:52","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T15:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/?p=15014"},"modified":"2025-06-27T15:00:52","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T15:00:52","slug":"review-red-sword-by-bora-chung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/?p=15014","title":{"rendered":"Review: Red Sword by Bora Chung"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:21% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"667\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/chung-667x1024.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14649 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/chung-667x1024.webp 667w, https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/chung-195x300.webp 195w, https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/chung.webp 765w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 667px) 100vw, 667px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size:18px\"><strong>Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/worldliteraturetoday.org\/2025\/july\/red-sword-bora-chung\">my review<\/a> of Bora Chung\u2019s first novel in English<em>, <\/em>translated by Anton Hur, in the latest issue of <em>World Literature Today.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size:16px\">&#8220;<em>Based on the story of seventeenth-century Korean soldiers fighting against Russia on behalf of the Qing dynasty, Red Sword is a story about war, though here it is the far future, where a vast Empire roams the galaxy finding civilizations from which it can extract resources and technology.<\/em>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out my review of Bora Chung\u2019s first novel in English, translated by Anton Hur, in the latest issue of World Literature Today. &#8220;Based on the story of seventeenth-century Korean soldiers fighting against Russia on behalf of the Qing dynasty, Red Sword is a story about war, though here it is the far future, where<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/?p=15014\" class=\"more-link themebutton\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[911,910,1195,52,168],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15014"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15015,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15014\/revisions\/15015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}