Quo Vadis Korea: The Last Custodian of Confucianism and Its Atypical Transformation

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In the mid-20th century, Korea was dubbed the last custodian of Confucianism, but it is now very hard to call the country a truly Confucian society. This volume explores how some five decades of industrialization and modernization could ineluctably change the nation so fundamentally that their repercussions now sharply negate many basic principles of Confucianism in one way to another.