Engraving Virtue: The Printing History of a Premodern Korean Moral Primer
Biographical note
Young Kyun Oh, Ph.D. (2005), University of Wisconsin-Madison, is Assistant Professor of Chinese and Sino-Korean at the School of International Letters and Cultures, Arizona State University. He has published sevreal articles on Sino-Korean cultural and linguistic connections.
Readership
All interested in the print culture and its implications on social changes, Korean studies, literary and intellectual history of Asia, and Confucian transformation of Korea and East Asia.
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The book deals with the influences exerted by Social Darwinism upon Korea’s modern ideologies and discourses in the 1880s-1900s. It argues that Social Darwinism constituted the main keystone for many pivotal discourses in early modern Korea, especially nationalism.
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Recognizing the uniquely codified pluralist orientation of early Koryŏ society (918-1170), this book presents a radical re-evaluation of Koryŏ identities and self-perceptions, which entails far-reaching consequences for the understanding of Koryŏ history and of its place in East Asian history.
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