Chong Yagyong: Korea's Challenge to Orthodox Neo-Confucianism.(Review)

From: Korean Studies | Date: January 1, 1999| Author: Doo-hee, Chung | Copyright information

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 develope...

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