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Article: Chong Yagyong: Korea's Challenge to Orthodox Neo-Confucianism.(Review)
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- Korean Studies
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- January 1, 1999
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Chong Yagyong: Korea's Challenge to Orthodox Neo-Confucianism, by Mark Setton. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997. xiv, 232 pp., appendix, notes, glossary, bibliography, index.
In their research on Choson intellectual history after the seventeenth century, Korean historians have noted the development of Sirhak, or Practical Learning, thought. Practical Learning had long ties with many of the reforms of the late Choson period and is believed to have developed in opposition to the orthodox Songnihak, or Neo-Confucianism, of Choson. Neo-Confucianism, because of its close links to the painful collapse Korea experienced in the late nineteenth century, is ...