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A Korean Scholars Rude Awakening in Qing China: Pak Chegas Discourse on Northern Learning (Korean Classics Library: Historical Materials Book 6) by Pak, Che-ga; Choi, Byonghyon; Kye, Seung B.; Atkinson, Timothy V.; is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Two years after Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations was published in 1776, Pak Chega's (1750–1805) Discourse on Northern Learning appeared on the opposite corner of the globe. Both books presented notions of wealth and the economy for critical review: the former caused a stir across Europe, the latter influenced only a modest group of Chosŏn (1392–1897) Korea scholars and other intellectuals. Nevertheless, the ideas of both thinkers closely reflected the spirit of their times and helped define certain schools of thought—in the case of Pak, Northern Learning (Pukhak), which disparaged the Chosŏn Neo-Confucian state ideology as inert and ineffective. Years of humiliation and resentment against the conquering Manchus blinded many Korean elites to the scientific and technological advances made in Qing China (1644–1911). They despised its rulers as barbarians and begrudged Qing China's status as their suzerain state. But Pak saw Korea's northern neighbor as a model of economic and social reform. He and like-minded progressives discussed and corroborated views about the superiority of China's civilization. After traveling to Beijing in 1776, Pak wrote Discourse on Northern Learning , in
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- Author
- Pak, Che-ga; Choi, Byonghyon; Kye, Seung B.; Atkinson, Timothy V.;
- Publisher
- University of Hawaiʻi Press
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780824879815
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Travel, Humanities
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