Establishing a Pluralist Society in Medieval Korea, 918-1170: History, Ideology, and Identity in the Koryŏ Dynasty

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BRILL, 25‏/03‏/2010 - 500 من الصفحات
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 in allowing the notion that realities were scattered, inconsistent and plural.
Here is a convincing argument that Koryŏ’s pluralism decisively contributed to the formation of a region-transcending communal identity that enabled Koryŏ to engage in a civilizational competition with neighbouring Chinese and Manchurian states, while maintaining a dynamic but stable society domestically.

 

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Introduction
1
Part One Establishment of a Pluralist Community
25
Chapter One Collective names and designations
29
Chapter Two A historic territory in Koryo
59
Chapter Three Shared ideas of descent
83
Chapter Four Tracing legitimation
111
Part Two Understanding Koryo Pluralist Ideology
143
Chapter Five The Koryo ruler common focus of obedience and worship
147
Chapter Eight The origins of Koryo pluralism
289
Part Three Koryos Practical Realities of Engagement
313
Chapter Nine The oldest extant history and the perpetuation of a pluralist past in shared memories and histories
317
Chapter Ten The Ten injunctions
351
The bid for the impossible good
407
Bibliography
447
works in classical Chinese
473
Index
475

Chapter Six Koryo diplomacy
195
Chapter Seven Pluralist literati in Koryo
257

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