Culture and the state in late Chosŏn Korea
By: JaHyun Kim Haboush & Martina Deuchler, editors.
Contributors: Haboush, JaHyun Kim.; Deuchler, Martina, 1935-
Series: Harvard-Hallym series on Korean studies
Publisher: Harvard University Asia Center
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
Subjects: Confucianism and state -- Korea -- History; Neo-Confucianism -- Korea; Korea -- Politics and government -- 1392-1910
Description: "The Choson state is often cited as one of the rare instances in which a polity was proclaimed on the basis of a specific ideology. But the state's adherence to the doctrines of the Ch'eng-Chu school of Neo-Confucianism did not mean that all members of the ruling elite agreed on doctrinal matters or that non-Confucian worldviews were totally discarded."--BOOK JACKET.

"The six chapters in this volume investigate the shifting boundaries between the Choson state and the adherents of Confucianism, Buddhism, Christianity, and popular religions from the late sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries."--BOOK JACKET.

"Collectively, the papers in the volume counter the static view of the Korean Confucian state, elucidate its relationship to the wider Confucian community and religious groups, and suggest new views of the complex way in which each negotiated and adjusted its ideology and practices in response to the state's activities."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Gift of the Korea Foundation.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-281) and index.
Table of contents: title: Private academies and the state in late Chosŏn Korea -- Yŏng-ho Chóe; title: Constructing the center : the ritual controversy and the search for a new identity in seventeenth-century Korea -- JaHyun Kim Haboush; title: Despoilers of the way, insulters of the sages : controversies over the classics in seventeenth-century Korea -- Martina Deuchler; title: Buddhism under Confucian domination : the synthetic vision of Sŏsan Hyujŏng -- Robert E. Buswell, Jr.; title: A different thread : orthodoxy, heterodoxy, and Catholicism in a Confucian world-- Don Baker.