![]() | A Korean Scholar’s Rude Awakening in Qing China: Pak Chega’s Discourse on Northern Learning Subjects: China -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800; China -- Social life and customs -- 18th century -- Early works to 1800; China -- Social conditions -- 18th century -- Early works to 1800; Korea -- Social conditions -- 1392-1910 -- Early works to 1; 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. Byonghyon Choi (Translator) Byonghyon Choi is director of the Center for the Globalization of Korean Classics.Seung B. Kye (Translator) Seung B. Kye is professor of history at Sogang University.Timothy V. Atkinson (Translator) Timothy V. Atkinson is a translator and professor at Seoul University of Foreign Studies. |
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