| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 484 pages) |
| Series |
Brill's Korean studies library ; v. 1 |
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Brill's Korean studies library.
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| Contents |
Preliminary Material / R. Breuker -- Introduction / R. Breuker -- Chapter One. Collective Names And Designations / R. Breuker -- Chapter Two. A Historic Territory In Koryo / R. Breuker -- Chapter Three. Shared Ideas Of Descent / R. Breuker -- Chapter Four. Tracing Legitimation / R. Breuker -- Chapter Five. The Koryo Ruler, Common Focus Of Obedience And Worship / R. Breuker -- Chapter Six. Koryo Diplomacy / R. Breuker -- Chapter Seven. Pluralist Literati In Koryo / R. Breuker -- Chapter Eight. The Origins Of Koryo Pluralism / R. Breuker -- Chapter Nine. The Oldest Extant History And The Perpetuation Of A Pluralist Past In Shared Memories And Histories / R. Breuker -- Chapter Ten. The Ten Injunctions / R. Breuker -- Chapter Eleven. Myoch'Ong's Challenge: The Bid For The 'Impossible Good' / R. Breuker -- Bibliography / R. Breuker -- Bibliography: Works In Classical Chinese / R. Breuker -- Index / R. Breuker |
| Summary |
This book offers no less than a radically different view of the Koryŏ state. Until now scholarship failed to recognize the complicated historical descent, byzantine international relations and multiple incommensurable worldviews of the early Korean Koryŏ state (918-1170). Instead, it subjected these to reductionist categories favouring reified particulars over broader views. Asking how Koryŏ meaningfully dealt with its environment, Remco Breuker rejects the reduction of Koryŏ intellectual abundance to analytical categories, and emphasizes the functional importance of Koryŏ's pluralism |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-471) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
National characteristics, Korean.
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HISTORY.
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Civilization
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Intellectual life
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National characteristics, Korean
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Social conditions
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| SUBJECT |
Korea -- History -- Koryŏ period, 935-1392.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85073028
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Korea -- Social conditions -- To 1500
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Korea -- Intellectual life -- To 1500
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Korea -- Civilization -- 935-1392.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85073013
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| Subject |
Korea
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789004190122 |
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9004190120 |
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9789004183254 |
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9004183256 |
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