description: Turning to the East has been primarily to India, to China, and to Japan. Korea has been seen as a satellite of a Chinese culture which in some respects attained its fullest development in Japan. Even Koreans were forced for some time to accept this pejorative account of their tradition and culture, ad this may account in part for their enthusiastic and successful adoption of Western ideas and religion. But fresh historical research is leading to a quite different picture. Far from being a satellite of Chinese culture, Korea is the heir of the earliest form of that culture and has preserved and developed it with peculiar richness. Much of what has been appreciated in Chinese thought has its fullest and purest embodiment in the culture and heritage of Korea. - John B. Cobb
language: English
title: Hanism as Korean Mind: Interpretation of Han Philosophy
titlecomplete: Hanism as Korean Mind: Interpretation of Han Philosophy
publisher: The Eastern Academy of Human Sciences