GASA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Korean Empire, Donghak, Global Asia
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Medicine and asian modern ii: eastern way, western techniques. Chinese accept modern technology, modern engineers, weren"t accepting western ideas and medicine: their medicine based on chinese tradition and theories, chinese med doesn"t rely on system of surgery or biology. Western medicine based on autonomy knowledge and their system of method is surgery, built upon human biology and autonomy -> surgeries, removing tumours. Mid 19 century faced aggression from japan. Korea had to accept pressure from japan and had to open up to imperial powers: a colony, western medicine under the asian colonizer. Muliti-ethnic, or multinational political unit created by conquest. The chosen dynasty (1392-1910: 10-15 years was called great korean empire. Beginning of dynasty korea is btw 2 imperial powers. Scholars make call it (long choson) pre modern society, or early modern society. Neo confucianisim= recreated korea based on confuscianism.
