Title: The architecture of ideology by David J. Nemeth ( in translation)
Description: **Cheju Island**, Korea's historic island of exile, with a harsh natural environment, early developed a negative image as human habitat. The author challenges this perception and shows how Neo-Confucian state ideology during the Yi dynasty (A.D. 1392-1910) created and conserved the island as a viable habitat by using feng-shui--a powerful medieval science of surveying--to shape the island's built environment and quality of life. The outcome, reflecting sustained political commitment to the philosophical concept of enlightened undervelopment, was a sincere landscape inhabited by a virtuous people. Cheju Island, Korea's historic island of exile, with a harsh natural environment, early developed a negative image as human habitat. The author challenges this perception and shows how Neo-Confucian state ideology during the Yi dynasty (A.D. 1392-1910) created and conserved the island as a viable habitat by using feng-shui--a powerful medieval science of surveying--to shape the island's built environment and quality of life. The outcome, reflecting sustained political commitment to the philosophical concept of enlightened undervelopment, was a sincere landscape inhabited by a virtuous people.
Subjects: Jujudo, feng-shui (Korean p'ungsu), cultural landscape, Neo-Confucian ideology, Hallasan, Neo-confucianism, Geomancy, Korea, religion, Civilization, History
Places: Cheju-do, Cheju-do (Korea), Korea (South)
People: Chu Hsi
Time periods: 1972