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Protestantism and Politics in Korea
Following its introduction to Korea in the late nineteenth century, Protestantism grew rapidly both in numbers of followers and in influence, and remained a dominating social and political force throughout the twentieth century. In Protestantism and Politics in Korea, Chung-shin Park charts this stunning growth and examines the shifting political associations of Korean Protestantism. Elsewhere in Asia, evangelical Protestant missionaries failed to have much social and political impact, being perceived as little more than agents of Western imperialism. But in Korea the church became a locus of national resistance to Japanese colonization in the fifty years preceding 1945. Missionaries and loc...
The Palgrave Handbook of the Catholic Church in East Asia
This Handbook analyses explores the Catholic Church in Asia following a chronological framework to trace events from the late 8th century to the 21st century in East Asia, South East Asia as well as Mongolia, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh and India. This Handbook considers the horizontal strata of society through space, examining key issues such as church architecture, music and images, the Church's role in education, linguistic and translation issues surrounding Bible studies, evangelization and the building of Church hierarchy, religious formation, and gender relations. Exploring the Vatican’s relations with Asian countries from the beginning of the Church in Asia, this Handbook offers a key reference to Church history in Asia for students and researchers in Christianity studies, History, Cultural and Asian studies.
Chŏng Yagyong
Describes the historical background and philosophy of the reform-minded, eighteenth-century Korean thinker, Chong Yagyong.
The Hall of Heavenly Records
Four distinguished historians of Asian science examine the creation of some remarkable early scientific instruments.
Higher Education Governance in East Asia
This book deepens our understanding of how higher education governance has recently changed in the rapidly developing higher education systems of East Asia. Focusing on China, Japan, Korea, Malaysia and Taiwan, it explains the implications of how state-centered political systems interpret political and economic environments such as neoliberalism, as well as how each system is coping with global pressures. The book makes a valuable contribution to organization studies in higher education by investigating and detailing how individual higher education institutions are responding to their new environments.
Matteo Ricci and the Missionary Role in the Evolution of Chinese Lexicon
This is a systematic study of Matteo Ricci’s (1552–610) enormous impact on the development of modern scientific and intellectual terminology in China. Taking the Sino‐estern cultural exchanges initiated by Western Jesuit missionaries in the late‐ing dynasty as its starting point, this book comprehensively presents the new terms coined by Ricci (and his collaborators) in his religious, geographical, geometrical, and astronomical Chinese writings. It uses a multitude of examples adopted from Ricci’s Chinese works as well as from ancient Chinese documents to discuss etymological evolution. Ricci’s early coinages of terms and their subsequent history demonstrate the role of interacti...
Research Handbook on Academic Careers and Managing Academics
This timely Research Handbook provides a broad analysis and discussion on how academics are managed. It addresses key issues, including the changing nature of academic work and academic labour markets, issues of power, leadership, ageing, human resource management practices, and mobility.
