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| 서명/저자사항 | King Chongjo, an enlightened despot in early modern Korea/ Christopher Lovins. [electronic resource]. |
| 개인저자 | Lovins, Christopher,1980- author. |
| 발행사항 | Albany, NY: State University of New York, [2019]. |
| 형태사항 | 1 online resource. |
| ISBN | 9781438473659 1438473656 |
| 서지주기 | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 내용주기 | Early modernity and absolutism -- Politics in early modern Korea -- The politics of Confucianism -- Power and factions -- Building a system -- Military matters -- Chongjo in an early modern world -- Conclusion. |
| 요약 | "Were the countries of Europe the only ones that were "early modern"? Was Asia's early modernity cut short by colonialism? Scholars examining early modern Eurasia have not yet fully explored the relationships between absolute rule and political modernization in the highly contested early modern world. Using a comparative perspective that places Chŏngjo, king of Korea from 1776 to 1800, in context with other Korean kings and with contemporary Chinese and European rulers, Christopher Lovins examines the shifting balance of power in Korea in favor of the crown at the expense of the aristocracy during the early modern period. Lovins is the first in English-language scholarship to analyze the recently discovered collection of 297 private letters written by Chŏngjo himself. These letters were undoubtedly a vital channel of communication outside of official court historians' scrutiny, since private meetings between the king and his ministers were forbidden by custom. Royal politics played out in an arena of subtle communication, with court officials trying to read the king's unstated, elliptically hinted at intentions and the king trying to suggest what he wanted done while maintaining plausible deniability. Through close analysis of both official records and private letters, including Chŏngjo's "secret letters," Lovins shows that, in contrast to previous assumptions, the late eighteenth-century Korean monarchs were not weak and ineffective but instead in the process of building an absolutist polity."--Provided by publisher. |
| 주제명(개인명) | Chŏngjo, -- King of Korea,1752-1800. Chŏngjo, -- King of Korea, -- Correspondence.1752-1800. -- |
| 주제명(지명) | Korea --Kings and rulers --Biography. Korea --Politics and government --1392-1910. Korea. --fast |
| 일반주제명 | Despotism --Korea --History. Despotism. Politics and government. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical HISTORY / Asia / China |
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