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Women and Confucianism in Choson Korea

Author : Youngmin Kim,Michael J. Pettid
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438437750

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Women and Confucianism in Choson Korea by Youngmin Kim,Michael J. Pettid Pdf

A new, multifaceted look at Korean women during a period of strong Confucian ideology.

Women and Confucian Cultures in Premodern China, Korea, and Japan

Author : Dorothy Ko,JaHyun Kim Haboush,Joan R. Piggott
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Confucianism
ISBN : 9780520231054

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Women and Confucian Cultures in Premodern China, Korea, and Japan by Dorothy Ko,JaHyun Kim Haboush,Joan R. Piggott Pdf

This book rewrites the history of East Asia by rethinking the contentious relationship between "Confucianisms" and "women."

Culture and the State in Late Chosŏn Korea

Author : JaHyun Kim Haboush,Martina Deuchler
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684173310

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Culture and the State in Late Chosŏn Korea by JaHyun Kim Haboush,Martina Deuchler Pdf

"Investigating the late sixteenth through the nineteenth century, this work looks at the shifting boundaries between the Chosŏn 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."

Creative Women of Korea: The Fifteenth Through the Twentieth Centuries

Author : Young-Key Kim-Renaud
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317473664

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Creative Women of Korea: The Fifteenth Through the Twentieth Centuries by Young-Key Kim-Renaud Pdf

This book introduces important contributions in the humanities by a select group of traditional and modern Korean women, from the 15th through the 20th centuries. The literary and artistic works of these women are considered Korean classics, and the featured artists and writers range from a queen, to a courtesan, to a Buddhist nun, to unknown women of Korea. Although women's works were generally meant only to circulate among women, these creative expressions have caught the attention of literary and artistic connoisseurs. By bringing them to light, the book seeks to demonstrate how Korean women have tried to give their lives meaning over the ages through their very diverse, yet common artistic responses to the details and drama of everyday life in Confucian Korea. The stories of these women and their work give us glimpses of their personal views on culture, aesthetics, history, society, politics, morality, and more.

The Confucian Transformation of Korea

Author : Martina Deuchler
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684170159

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The Confucian Transformation of Korea by Martina Deuchler Pdf

Legislation to change Korean society along Confucian lines began at the founding of the Chosŏn dynasty in 1392 and had apparently achieved its purpose by the mid seventeenth century. Until this important new study, however, the nature of Koryŏ society, the stresses induced by the new legislation, and society’s resistance to the Neo-Confucian changes imposed by the Chosŏn elite have remained largely unexplored. To explain which aspects of life in Koryŏ came under attack and why, Martina Deuchler draws on social anthropology to examine ancestor worship, mourning, inheritance, marriage, the position of women, and the formation of descent groups. To examine how Neo-Confucian ideology could become an effective instrument for altering basic aspects of Koryŏ life, she traces shifts in political and social power as well as the cumulative effect of changes over time. What emerges is a subtle analysis of Chosŏn Korean social and ideological history.

Im Yunjidang

Author : Sungmoon Kim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781009021357

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Im Yunjidang by Sungmoon Kim Pdf

This Element aims to critically examine the philosophical thought of Im Yunjidang 任允摯堂 (1721–93), a female Korean Neo-Confucian philosopher from the Chosŏn 朝鮮 dynasty (1392–1910), and to present her as a feminist thinker. Unlike most Korean women of her time, Yunjidang had the exceptional opportunity to be introduced to a major philosophical debate among Korean Neo-Confucians, which was focused on two core questions-whether sages and commoners share the same heart-mind, and whether the natures of human beings and animals are identical. In the course of engaging in this debate, she was able to reformulate Neo-Confucian metaphysics and ethics of moral self-cultivation, culminating in her bold ideas of the moral equality between men and women and the possibility of female sagehood. By proposing a 'stage-approach' to feminism that is also sensitive to the cultural context, this Element shows that Yunjidang's philosophical thought could be best captured in terms of Confucian feminism.

Confucianism and Women

Author : Li-Hsiang Lisa Rosenlee
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780791481790

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Confucianism and Women by Li-Hsiang Lisa Rosenlee Pdf

Confucianism and Women argues that Confucian philosophy—often criticized as misogynistic and patriarchal—is not inherently sexist. Although historically bound up with oppressive practices, Confucianism contains much that can promote an ethic of gender parity. Attacks on Confucianism for gender oppression have marked China's modern period, beginning with the May Fourth Movement of 1919 and reaching prominence during the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s. The West has also readily characterized Confucianism as a foundation of Chinese women's oppression. Author Li-Hsiang Lisa Rosenlee challenges readers to consider the culture within which Confucianism has functioned and to explore what Confucian thought might mean for women and feminism. She begins the work by clarifying the intellectual tradition of Confucianism and discussing the importance of the Confucian cultural categories yin-yang and nei-wai (inner-outer) for gender ethics. In addition, the Chinese tradition of biographies of virtuous women and books of instruction by and for women is shown to provide a Confucian construction of gender. Practices such as widow chastity, footbinding, and concubinage are discussed in light of Confucian ethics and Chinese history. Ultimately, Rosenlee lays a foundation for a future construction of Confucian feminism as an alternative ethical ground for women's liberation.

Encounter, Transformation, and Agency in a Connected World

Author : Susan Broomhall
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000909869

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Encounter, Transformation, and Agency in a Connected World by Susan Broomhall Pdf

Analysing a series of narratives that described women who transformed the worlds they lived in, this book introduces students and scholars to the lives of the women of Joseon Korea 1550-1700. Exploring their interactions both at home and abroad, this book shows how the agency of these women reached far across the globe The narratives explored here appeared in a wide range of written, visual and material forms, from woodcuts and printed texts, letters, journals, and chronicles to inscriptions on monuments, and were produced by Joseon’s elite officials, grieving families, Japanese civic administrators, Jesuit missionaries, local historians of the Japanese ceramic industry, and men of the Dutch East India Company. The women whose voices, lives, and actions were presented in these texts lived during a time when Joseon Korea was undergoing substantial social, political, and cultural changes. Their works described women’s capacity to transform, in ways large and small, themselves, their families, and society around them. Interest in such women was not limited to a readership within the kingdom alone in this period but was reported across transnational networks to a global audience, from Japan to Europe, carrying messages about Korean women’s agency far and wide. Encounter, Transformation, and Agency in a Connected World: Narratives of Korean Women, 1550-1700 is essential reading for students and scholars interested in the history of Joseon Korea and Asia and the history of women in the early modern period more broadly.

Dao Companion to Korean Confucian Philosophy

Author : Young-chan Ro
Publisher : Springer
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789048129331

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Dao Companion to Korean Confucian Philosophy by Young-chan Ro Pdf

This volume is the first comprehensive and in-depth discussion written in English of the Confucian tradition in the context of the intellectual history of Korea. It deals with the historical, social, political, philosophical and spiritual dimensions of Korean Confucianism, arguably the most influential intellectual tradition, ethical and religious practice, and political-ideological system in Korea. This volume analyzes the unique aspects of the Korean development of the Confucian tradition by examining the role of Confucianism as the ruling ideology of the Choson Dynasty (1302-1910). It investigates Confucianism’s social and cultural construction, and intellectual foundation in highlighting the Korean achievement of the Neo-Confucian discussion on "human nature and its principle" in light of the Chinese Neo-Confucian development. The volume also surveys the most influential Korean Confucian scholars discussing their philosophical significance in relation to one of the most fundamental Neo-Confucian discourses, namely the li (principle) and qi (material force) debates, to elucidate how metaphysical theories shaped the socio-political factions of the Choson Dynasty. Furthermore, issues concerning the relationship between Confucianism and Buddhism and other native traditional belief systems are also included in this volume. The volume explores the Confucian confrontation with modernity, encounter with the "Western Learning" including Western science and Catholicism, and the Confucian struggle with modernity in dealing with issues such as democracy, human rights, and gender in modern Korea. Individual contributors of this volume are either well established senior scholars or promising young scholars in the field.

The Politics of Gender in Colonial Korea

Author : Theodore Jun Yoo
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520283817

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The Politics of Gender in Colonial Korea by Theodore Jun Yoo Pdf

This study examines how the concept of "Korean woman" underwent a radical transformation in Korea's public discourse during the years of Japanese colonialism. Theodore Jun Yoo shows that as women moved out of traditional spheres to occupy new positions outside the home, they encountered the pervasive control of the colonial state, which sought to impose modernity on them. While some Korean women conformed to the dictates of colonial hegemony, others took deliberate pains to distinguish between what was "modern" (e.g., Western outfits) and thus legitimate, and what was "Japanese," and thus illegitimate. Yoo argues that what made the experience of these women unique was the dual confrontation with modernity itself and with Japan as a colonial power.

The Korean Neo-Confucianism of Yi Yulgok

Author : Young-chan Ro
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1988-07-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438417448

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The Korean Neo-Confucianism of Yi Yulgok by Young-chan Ro Pdf

This book explores the philosophical and religious dimensions of Korean Neo-Confuciansim as expounded by one of the foremost Korean Neo-Confucian thinkers, Yi Yulgok (1536-1584). Yulgok's creative interpretations reformulate some fundamental issues of Confucian philosophy. This book explores the significance of the fundamental assumption which underlies the entire system of Yulgok's Confucian thought. That philosophical assumption is characterized by the author as 'non-dualistic' and 'anthropocosmic'. It is a unique aspect of Korean Neo-Confucianism which leads to a new way of understanding the Confucian world view and spirituality. This 'non-dualistic' vision sheds a new and critical light on the dialectical framework of thinking at work in Western formulations of understanding the ultimate reality, nature, the universe, and human being. The 'anthropocosmic' vision in this respect will challenge fundamental assumptions of Western theological formulation and suggest a new understanding of human nature and the universe. A 'non-dualistic' and 'anthropocosmic' interpretation of Yulgok's thought is a fruitful way of approaching the Korean way of thinking and of coming to grips with one Neo-Confucian mode of attaining human self-understanding.

Unyong-jon

Author : Michael J. Pettid,Kil Cha Pettid
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105126972673

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Unyong-jon by Michael J. Pettid,Kil Cha Pettid Pdf

Review: The story is about a girl who is chosen to receive a literary education in the Korean palace. She among the other 9 girls excell at poetry and live truely blessed lives compared to the average life of someone of their birth and sex. The main heartbreak of all the girls, but more so for Unyoung is that she will never be allowed to marry or have a romantic relationship. One day a poet prodigy comes to the palace to meet with the prince, who is the girl's patron. He writes such sublim poetry that Unyong falls in love with him, and writes to him, at which point he falls in love with her. The book is about their love affair, and the hardships they must endure due to confucious society that disallows them their natural disposition. -- from http://www.amazon.com (Dec. 17, 2014)

Confucianism, Law, and Democracy in Contemporary Korea

Author : Sungmoon Kim
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781783482252

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Confucianism, Law, and Democracy in Contemporary Korea by Sungmoon Kim Pdf

Comparative political theory has grown into a recognized discipline in its own right in the last two decades. Yet little has been done to explore how political theory engages with the actual social, legal, and political reality of a particular polity. East Asians are complexly conditioned by traditional Confucian norms and habits, despite significant social, economic, and political changes in their contemporary lives. This volume seeks to address this important issue by developing a specifically Confucian political and legal theory. The volume focuses on South Korea, whose traditional society was and remains the most Confucianized among pre-modern East Asian countries. It offers an interesting case for thinking about Confucian democracy and constitutionalism because its liberal-democratic institutions are compatible with and profoundly influenced by the Confucian habit of the heart. The book wrestles with the practical meaning of liberal rights under the Korean Confucian societal culture and illuminates a way in which traditional Confucianism can be transformed through legal and political processes into a new Confucianism relevant to democratic practices in contemporary Korea.

Seeking Order in a Tumultuous Age

Author : To-jŏn Chŏng
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Korea
ISBN : 0824872150

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Seeking Order in a Tumultuous Age by To-jŏn Chŏng Pdf

Chong Tojon, one of the most influential thinkers in Korean history, played a leading role in the establishment of the Choson dynasty (1392-1910). Long recognised for his contributions to the development of Neo-Confucianism in Korea, Chong was both a prodigious writer and an influential statesman. This volume charts Chong's rise to prominence amidst the turmoil of the late fourteenth century.