Alternative Discourses on Modernization and Development
East Asian Perspectives
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This cutting edge work offers an alternative perspective on existing paradigms of modernization and development that originated in the West from the vantage point of non-western, late-modernizing societies. It considers how East Asian philosophical ideas enrich the reformulation of the concept of development or societal development, and how influential principles of traditional culture such as yin-yang dialectic interact with modern ideas and technology. It addresses the significance of alternative discourses as culturally independent scholarship, and the problems of pervasive mechanisms of social, political, economic, and cultural dependence in the global academic world.
This cutting edge work offers an alternative perspective on existing paradigms of modernization and development that originated in the West from the vantage point of non-western, late-modernizing societies. It considers how East Asian philosophical ideas enrich the reformulation of the concept of development or societal development, and how influential principles of traditional culture such as yin-yang dialectic interact with modern ideas and technology. It addresses the significance of alternative discourses as culturally independent scholarship, and the problems of pervasive mechanisms of social, political, economic, and cultural dependence in the global academic world.
Analyses the interaction between Confucian ideas, modernization and development in East Asia Advances how scholarship in late-modernizing societies endeavors to gain 'cultural independence' Considers how the culture of Confucianism has contributed to the historical dynamics of emergence and evolution of capitalism in the three East Asian nations
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Kim Kyong-Dong
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values and ethics in academic discourse evolution of capitalism in East Asia yin-yang dialectic and East Asian classical thought modernization and development in East Asia academia in late-modernizing societies non-Western academia
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“This three-volume series is a magnificent synthesis of questions and debates over modernization, development and Confucianism in the context of Korea and East Asia. … In sum, the trilogy is a great accomplishment not only for the author, but also for the Korean sociological community, channeling their distinctive experience of modernization with global academia.” (Jaeyeol Yee, Development and Society, Vol. 46 (3), December, 2017)
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