![]() | Catholics and Anti-Catholicism in Chosŏn Korea Korea's first significant encounter with the West occurred in the last quarter of the eighteenth century when a Korean Catholic community emerged on the peninsula. Decades of persecution followed, resulting in the deaths of thousands of Korean Catholics. Don Baker provides an invaluable analysis of late-Chosŏn (1392-1897) thought, politics, and society to help readers understand the response of Confucians to Catholicism and of Korean Catholics to years of violent harassment. His analysis is informed by two remarkable documents expertly translated with the assistance of Franklin Rausch and annotated here for the first time: an anti-Catholic essay written in the 1780s by Confucian scholar Ahn Chŏngbok (1712-1791) and a firsthand account of the 1801 anti-Catholic persecution by one of its last victims, the religious leader Hwang Sayŏng (1775-1801). Don Baker (Author) Don Baker is professor of Korean civilization in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia.Franklin Rausch (Author) Franklin Rausch is assistant professor in the Department of History and Philosophy at Lander University in Greenwood, South Carolina. |
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