tailieunhanh - Korea’s and Vietnam’s encounter and reaction towards western ideas in the flux of western intervention: Focusing on selective factors from the seventeenth to mid- nineteenth century

This paper is a comparative research on how Vietnam and Korea struggled to accommodate and interact with Western ideas in the advent of Western intervention in the East Asian region, based on the closely related cultural and historical background between the two East Asian countries. The author specifically focuses on the rise of Western ideas, . Catholicism in the two countries within the dominant impacts of Confucian Sino-centric perception adopted by Confucian scholars and rulers for centuries. |