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Neo-Confucianism and Science in Korea - Humanity and Nature, 1706-1814 (Hardcover)
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Neo-Confucianism and Science in Korea - Humanity and Nature, 1706-1814 (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
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Historians of late premodern Korea have tended to regard it as a
hermit kingdom, isolated from its neighbours and the wider world.
In fact, as Ro argues in this book, Korean intellectuals were
heavily influenced by both Chinese Neo-Confucianism and the
European Enlightenment in the late 18th and 19th centuries. In the
late Choson period the regime felt threatened by the new, more
empirical, approaches to knowledge emerging from both the East and
the West. For this reason many Korean intellectuals felt it
necessary to work in the shadows and formed secret societies for
the study of nature. Because of the secrecy of these societies,
much of their work has remained unknown even in Korea until recent
years. Ho looks at the work of these intellectuals and analyses the
impact their thinking and experimentation had on knowledge
production in Korea. A fascinating insight into the largely
overlooked story of how globalization affected intellectual life in
Korea before the 20th century. This book will be of great interest
to students and researchers of Korean history and of Asian
intellectual history more broadly.
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