EAST 213 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Korean Confucianism, Hegemony
5 Feb 2018
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Narratives determine how historical change is understood and interpreted. Histiography: the study of how history has been written (which stories told and why) For scholars of pre-modern korea, the key to establishing and maintaining a distinct korean culture and social organization lies in the transition from koryo to choson- the confucianization of korea. Examines the hegemonic group to look for the main factors (ideology and social structures) that shaped institutions of power and influence. Confucianism: social organization, hierarchy, young and old, social casts. End of feudalism in europe = liberalism, equivalence is big in the west, which is indeed opposite. Confucianism benefits everyone socially and morally everyone has their position. Ideal vision of how society must be organized. Choson dynasty lasted so long because of this. Stability that could last a very long time. Choson closed itself in despite changes in the world which failed at the end of the.
