Confucianism and Civilization
Tasan Chŏng Yagyong’s Views of Japan, the Ryūkyūs, and Tsushima
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19145261 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Don Baker (0000-0002-1908-7041, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 43-57 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Korean studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0145-840X • E-ISSN: 1529-1529 |
| Publisher | University of Hawaii Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/ks.2016.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W2519310126 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 3 |
For most of the Chosŏn dynasty (1392–1910), Koreans ranked the countries and peoples in their neighborhood on a scale from civilized to barbarian, with the more Confucianized ranking higher than the less Confucianized. Using that scale, they put the Ryūkyū kingdom ahead of Japan, and Tshushima below both of them. Tasan Chŏng Yagyong (1762–1836) accepted both that equation of civilization with Confucianization and that ranking. However, he was impressed by the level of Confucian writing in Tokugawa Japan and moved Japan a little closer to the perceived cultural level of the Ryūkyū kingdom than most of his fellow Korean Confucians did
Ancient history · Archaeology · Barbarian · Cartography · Civilization · Geography · Kingdom · Ranking (information retrieval) · Scale (ratio) · Chinese history and philosophy · Computer Science · History · Japanese History and Culture · Philippine History and Culture
| Citations per year | 0.29 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2021 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |