[KS] RE: Korean Tradition

[Kaliher, Kenneth L.]

Be sure to read Vincent Brandt's book, A Korean Village:  Between Farm and
Sea, which reports with great insight how Korea's traditional Confucian
hierarchy coexisted in a small 1960s fishing village with a more pragmatic
and often egalitarian social structure which facilitated communal
cooperation and the settlement of disputes.  

Ken Kaliher

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Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day.
Teach a man to fish, and you can sell him the equipment.


		-----Original Message-----
		From:	rbagga at nmsu.edu [mailto:rbagga at nmsu.edu]
		Sent:	Tuesday, January 04, 2000 3:31 PM
		To:	Todd Cameron Thacker
		Cc:	korean-studies at mailbase.ac.uk
		Subject:	Re: Korean Tradition

		Hi- I am working on my Masters thesis on" Tradition and
Modernity in the
		Republic of Korea." My major objective for the research is
to study the
		recent trends in South Korean society both in respect of its
traditional
		value system and the evolving modernization process, to
assess the role
		of Confucianism in the transitional phase.
			Will appreciate if anyone could suggest some sources
or help me in
		a better understanding of modern Korean society. I am
translating some
		Korean material and have looked into works of Prof. James
Palais, John
		Duncan, Hahm Chaibong, Donald Clark, Robert Buswell, Yoon
Yee-Heum,
		Martina Deuchler and few other. Will appreciate to get
		further references and insights into the role of modern day
society and
		influence of Confucianism in Korean society from late Choson
to present
		age.

		Thanks & Happy New Year 

		Rupa Bagga
		New Mexico State University  

		


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