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Understanding Korea Series No.3
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Edward Y. J. Chung

Prof. Edward Y.J. Chung (PhD, MA, BA, University of Toronto) teaches East Asian religion and thought and comparative religion at the University of Prince Edward Island, Canada, where he is now directing Asian Studies. His first major book is The Korean Neo-Confucianism of Yi T’oegye and Yi Yulgok… (SUNY Press). He published “Self-transcendence as the Ultimate Reality in Interreligious Dialogue: A Neo-Confucian Perspective,” Studies in Religion (2011), as well as two articles about Korean Neo-Confucianism and ecological thinking in Acta Koreana (2011) and Ecology and Korean Confucianism (2013). His other scholarly articles on Yi T’oegye (1501-70) and other topics (e.g., Confucianism in modern Korea) are published in East Asian Confucianisms (Rutgers University Press, 2010); Acta Koreana (Dec. 2010); Confucian Spirituality, vol. 2 (The Crossroad, 2004); The Annual Review of Women in World Religions; Monumenta Serica; Asian Profile; Korea Journal; Korean Culture; etc.

Understanding Korea Series No.3 Korean Confucianism

Foreword · Acknowledgments I · Acknowledgments II · Note on the Citation and Transliteration Style 2. Korean Confucianism: A Short History 3. Eminent Korean Thinkers and Scholars 4. Self-Cultivation: The Way of Learning to be Human 5. The Ethics of Human Relationships: Confucian Influence on Korean Family, Society, and Language 6. Education, Confucian Values, and Economic Development in Twentieth-Century Korea 7. Confucianism and Globalization: National Identity and Cultural Assimilation 8. Modern Korean Women and Confucian Values: Change and Assimilation 9. Ancestral Rites and Family Moral Spirituality: A Living Tradition in Today’s Korea 11. The Relevance and Future of Korean Confucianism in the Modern World Selected Bibliography · About the Author