1st Edition
Neo-Confucianism and Science in Korea Humanity and Nature, 1706-1814
By Sang-ho Ro
Copyright 2021
234 Pages
by
Routledge
234 Pages
by
Routledge
234 Pages
by
Routledge
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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,... Read more
1. Measuring the Old Universe with New Math 2. Observing the Animal Kingdom 3. Evolution of Korean Agrarian Writing 4. A Banished Man and Morphology of Fish 5. Daoist Alchemy and Female Empirical Knowledge
Biography
Sang-ho Ro is Assistant Professor of Korean and East Asian Studies in the Division of International Studies at Ewha Woman’s University.
