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Neo-Confucianism and Science in Korea
Humanity and Nature, 1706-1814
Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia Series
Author: Ro Sang-ho
Language: EnglishSubjects for Neo-Confucianism and Science in Korea:
Keywords
Yi Ik; Neo-Confucianism; Wang Shizhen; Confucianism; Ben Cao Gang Mu; Enlightenment; Jiu Zhang Suan Shu; Globalization; Luo Shu; Metaphysics; Ben Cao; Jesuits; Daoist Alchemy; Empiricism; Qi Min Yao Shu; Botany; Agrarian Writing; Morphology; Sweet Potato; Daoism; Tong Ji; Alchemy; Agricultural Botany; Korean intellectuals; Fang Yi Zhi; King Sejong; Animal Kingdom; Modern science; Yi Su Kwang; Korean agrarian writing; Planting Sweet Potato; Korean Empiricism; Moral Monism; Xu Guangqi; Civil Service Exams; Empirical Learning; Korean Vernacular; Ancient Ratio; Neo-Confucian Ethics
Publication date: 05-2023
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 05-2021
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Hardback
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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.
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
Sang-ho Ro is Assistant Professor of Korean and East Asian Studies in the Division of International Studies at Ewha Woman’s University.