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Establishing a Pluralist Society in Medieval Korea, 918-1170: History, Ideology, and Identity in the Koryo Dynasty

By (author) Remco Breuker

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This book offers no less than a radically different view of the KoryÅ state. Until now scholarship failed to recognize the complicated historical descent, byzantine international relations and multiple incommensurable worldviews of the early Korean KoryÅ state (918-1170). Instead, it subjected these to reductionist categories favouring reified particulars over broader views. Asking how KoryÅ meaningfully dealt with its environment, Remco Breuker rejects the reduction of KoryÅ intellectual abundance to analytical categories, and emphasizes the functional importance of KoryÅâ€™s pluralism in allowing the notion that realities were scattered, inconsistent and plural. Here is a convincing argument that KoryÅâ€™s pluralism decisively contributed to the formation of a region-transcending communal identity that enabled KoryÅ to engage in a civilizational competition with neighbouring Chinese and Manchurian states, while maintaining a dynamic but stable society domestically.

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