RT Article
T1 Dens of Feudalism: North Korean Discourse on Confucian Academies
JF Journal of Korean religions
VO 8
IS 2
SP 147
OP 180
A1 Glomb, Vladimir
A1 Eun-Jeung, Lee
LA English
PB University of Hawai'i Press
YR 2017
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1812420455
AB Confucian academies (sŏwŏn 書院) became in post-liberation North Korea subject of a complex political and intellectual debate motivated by the needs of the new regime to reevaluate the Korean past according to the ideological framework of Marxism-Leninism. Confucian academies were designated as institutions belonging to the past feudal order and as such their traditional functioning was severed and liquidated. On the other hand, they were to a certain degree recognized as cultural relics belonging to the people of the DPRK, and North Korean scholars have devoted considerable effort to describing the role of Confucian academies within traditional Korean society. The present study analyzes North Korean discursive strategies concerning Confucian academies during the 1950s and 1960s. It focuses on both popular and academic depictions of these educational, religious, and political institutions.
K1 literati
K1 Chosŏn
K1 North Korea
K1 sŏwŏn
K1 Confucian academies
DO 10.1353/jkr.2017.0016