The Confucian Kingship in Korea: Y�ngjo and the Politics of Sagacity by JaHyun Kim Haboush

The Confucian Kingship in Korea: Y�ngjo and the Politics of Sagacity

JaHyun Kim Haboush

336 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction informative reflective slow-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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