Myeongdong, Seoul, Sunday 31 May. Most of the morning I’m faffing around with my bags, working out what I can leave at the hotel in Seoul so that I can travel slightly lighter on the bus down South. For the first time I’ve brought an SLR to Korea with me to get some slightly better … [Read More]
People in History: Yulgok Yi I
Selected publications
- Hyoungchan Kim: Korean Confucianism: The Philosophy and Politics of Toegye and Yulgok, Rowman + Littlefield 2018
- Anthology: Neo-Confucianism in Korea ed Chai-shin Yu, Jain Publishing 2016
- Chung Soon Lee: Alfred North Whitehead and Yi Yulgok: Toward a Process-Confucian Spirituality in Korea, University Press of America 2006
- Edward Y J Chung: The Korean Neo-Confucianism of Yi T’Oegye and Yi Yulgok: A Reappraisal of the “Four-Seven Thesis” and Its Practical Implications For Self-Cultivation, SUNY 1995
- Michael C Kalton, Oaksook C Kim, Samuel Yamashita, Sung Bae Park, Tu Wei-ming, Youngchan Ro: The Four-Seven Debate: An Annotated Translation of the Most Famous Controversy in Korean Neo-Confucian Thought, SUNY 1994
Book review: Land of Scholars (Kang Jae-eun)
The Land of Scholars: Two Thousand Years of Korean Confucianism by Kang Jae-eun (translated from Japanese to Korean by Ha Woo-bong, then from Korean into English by Suzanne Lee) Homa & Sekey Books 2006; original Japanese version published in 2003. 515 pp Students of Korean history, and particularly of the Joseon dynasty, will inevitably at … [Read More]
Yulgok Yi I – a learned slouch with a stomach problem
LKL reports from the most recent Friday evening seminar at SOAS, in which Isabelle Sancho examined the letters of Confucian Scholar Yulgok Yi I What should one expect from the letters of one of the best-known Confucian scholars? In some respects, the sort of thing you might expect from any correspondence: pleasantries about health, about … [Read More]
A glimpse of a Confucian scholar’s intimacy
More details of this Friday’s free seminar at SOAS Friday, February 5th, 5pm, room G50 (main building) Isabelle Sancho, EHESS “A glimpse of Confucian scholar’s intimacy: the correspondence of Yulgok Yi I (1536-1584)” Abstract: The talk will focus on the correspondence of Yulgok Yi I (1536-1584), one of the most outstanding Confucian scholars of the … [Read More]