Harvard East Asian Monographs #182
Culture and the State in Late Chosŏn Korea
JaHyun Kim Haboush (Editor), Martina Deuchler (Editor)
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Investigating the late sixteenth through the nineteenth century, this work looks at the shifting boundaries between the Choson state and the adherents of Confucianism, Buddhism, Christianity, and popular religions. Seeking to define the meaning and constitutive elements of the hegemonic group and a particular marginalized community in this Confucian state, the contributors argue that the power of each group and the space it occupied were determined by a dynamic interaction of ideology, governmental policies, and the group's self-perceptions.
Collectively, the volume counters the static view of the Korean Confucian state, elucidates its relationship to the wider Confucian community and religious groups, and suggests new views of the complex way in which each negotiated and adjusted its ideology and practices in response to the state's activities.
295 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1999
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October 18, 2009
Let's admit. This is one of the very few good books on premodern Korea that are interesting to students of modern history like me.
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