The Routledge Handbook of Early Modern Korea (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Park, Eugene Y

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Korea is a historical region of prominence in the global political economy. Still, a comprehensive overview of its early modern era has yet to receive a book-length treatment in English. Comprising topical chapters written by 22 experts from 11 countries, The Routledge Handbook of Early Modern Korea presents an interdisciplinary survey of Korea's politics, society, economy, and culture from the founding of the Choson state (1392-1897) to 1873 when its political leadership began preparing for treaty relations with Imperial Japan, the United States, and other Western nations.

Choson mirrors shared historical patterns among literate sedentary societies of early modern Afro-Eurasia. Various long-term developments that shaped early modern Korea include the completion of centralized bureaucratic governance as codified in the State Administrative Code (Kyongguk taejon); the appearance of regular rural marketplaces facilitating transactions in an increasingly liberalized economy; continuity of an aristocracy (yangban) from the medieval period (Koryo: 918-1392); a decreasing correspondence between ascriptive status and socioeconomic class; and the state and the elite's growing interest in encyclopedic knowledge and its dissemination while their monopoly on knowledge production weakened.

This handbook provides historical context for readers wishing to know more than just the "Korea" that evokes K-pop or North Korea's nuclear weapons, while Hyundai, Samsung, and other South Korean brands have gained visibility in everyday life. Interested English-speaking scholars, educators, students, and the general public without access to the large body of Korean-language works on Choson will find this book a valuable critical introduction to early modern Korea.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040300947
• Artikelnr.: 72786973

Autorenporträt

Eugene Y. Park is a professor in the Department of History at the University of Nevada, Reno. Author of seven books, including Korea: A History (2022), his scholarship focuses on East Asia, especially Korean politics and society from the fifteenth to the early twentieth century. Maintaining a comparative perspective and interested in periodizing global history, Park also enjoys readings and conversations in evolutionary biology, deep history, and population genetics. His current research topics include ancient animal symbolism and historical human-feline interactions. In 2016, Park co-chaired the organizing committee of the Eighth Biennial World Congress of Korean Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Chos¿n in Time and Space
Chapter 1
Korea and Early Modernity
Sixiang Wang
Chapter 2
Foreign Relations
Kirk W. Larsen
Chapter 3
Korea as "Little China" (Sojunghwa)
Nataliya A. Chesnokova
Chapter 4
Korea in Japan
Rebekah Clements
Part II / The State, Power, and Resource
Chapter 5
Politics
Christopher Lovins
Chapter 6
The Military
Felix Siegmund
Chapter 7
Discontent
Andrew David Jackson
Chapter 8
Economy
Young-jun Cho
Part III: Society and Identity
Chapter 9
Status and Class
Eugene Y. Park
Chapter 10
Foreigners and the Descendants
Adam Bohnet
Chapter 11
Gender
Marion Eggert
Part IV: Philosophy and Religion
Chapter 12
Confucianism
Isabelle Sancho
Chapter 13
Buddhism
Juhn Y. Ahn
Chapter 14
Popular Religion
Boudewijn Walraven
Chapter 15
Catholicism
Franklin D. Rausch
Part V: Language, Learning, and Knowledge
Chapter 16
Language
Ross King
Chapter 17
Education
Diana Yuksel
Chapter 18
Science and Technology
Don Baker
Part VI: Creative Genres
Chapter 19
Literature
Gregory N. Evon
Chapter 20
Visual Arts
Yoonjung Seo
Chapter 21
Performing Arts
CedarBough T. Saeji
Epilogue: Korea since 1873
Mark E. Caprio