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Problematizing Confucian Intellectual : Topography of Modern Confucian Intellectual Studies and Exploring Scalability

  • International Journal of Glocal Language and Literary Studies(약칭: IGLL)
  • Abbr : IGLL
  • 2023, (14), pp.73~97
  • DOI : 10.23073/riks.2023..14.003
  • Publisher : Glocal Institute of Language and Literary Studies(GILLS)
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : September 15, 2023
  • Accepted : October 15, 2023
  • Published : October 31, 2023

Jihyun Park 1

1동아대학교

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of this article is to review the trends and achievements in the study of modern Confucian intellectuals in order to reconsider the status and role of the ‘the Traditional’ in modern history, and to explore the possibilities of expanding this field. To this end, I analyze the relevant studies by dividing them into two main categories. The first is the area related to how Confucian intellectuals appropriated modernity and reconstructed the ‘the Traditional’ as they became marginalized. Here, we examined studies that dealt with the interrelationship between ‘the Traditional’ and modern knowledge, as well as papers that dealt with changes in the way Confucian intellectuals relate to society. It was argued that in studying the intellectual activities of Confucian intellectuals, it is necessary to pay attention not only to the content of texts but also to changes in form, and it is also necessary to study social networks and various types of social organizations, meetings, and gatherings to identify the changed social relations of Confucian intellectuals. Th e second area is related to the hybridity of ‘the Traditional’ and modernity found in the daily lives of Confucian intellectuals. In this section, I categorized the daily lives of Confucian intellectuals into households/families, women, and professions, and reviewed previous studies in this area. Th rough this, I emphasized that the way hybridization functions and the process of operation is always carried out in the context of hierarchy, power and authority, race, and economic inequality between different cultures. Therefore, for the study of hybridity, it is necessary to trace the various strategies of Confucian intellectuals in the process of hybridization between the ‘the Traditional’ and the modern, and to pay attention to the micro-level power relations. It is hoped that the study of Confucian intellectuals will be expanded in the future, and the concepts and logic will be refined to discuss the power relations of socio-cultural practices surrounding ‘the Traditional’ in modern history, that is, the politics of ‘the Traditional’.

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