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The Confucian Kingship in Korea: Yôngjo and the Politics of Sagacity by JaHyun Kim Haboush

The Confucian Kingship in Korea: Yôngjo and the Politics of Sagacity

Studies in Asian Culture

JaHyun Kim Haboush

336 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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The Neo-Confucian kingship was based on the ideal of the sage king, an ordinary human being rendered supreme through his extraordinary virtue. The eighteenth-century Korean ruler Y ngjo, one of that country's most illustrious yet most tragic ruler...

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