Salvation through Dissent : : Tonghak Heterodoxy and Early Modern Korea / / George L. Kallander; ed. by Robert E. Buswell.

A popular teaching that combined elements of Confucianism, Daoism, Buddhism, folk beliefs, and Catholicism, Tonghak (Eastern Learning) is best known for its involvement in a rebellion that touched off the Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895) and accelerated Japanese involvement in Korea. Through a careful...

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Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2013]
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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Korean Classics Library: Philosophy and Religion
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Physical Description:1 online resource (344 p.) :; 3 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Securing the People: Orthodoxy, Heterodoxy, and the Confucian State
  • 2. Uncertain Times, Uncertain Means: Rural Life, Western Ways, and Ch'oe Cheu
  • 3. Kumi Mountain: Center of the World, 1861-1863
  • 4. The Tonghaks Have Again Arisen, 1864-1894
  • 5. Another Tonghak Revolution, 1904-1907
  • Conclusion
  • Translations
  • Eastern Scripture
  • Selections from Songs of Yongdam
  • Selections from Master Haewŏl's Discussion on the Teachings
  • Ch'oe Sihyŏng's Petitions
  • Account of the Origin of the Way
  • Notes
  • Glossary of Names, Terms, and Phrases
  • Bibliography
  • Index