Architect Ideo–Geo V26: Neo-Confucian Imprinting on Cheju Island, Korea (UC Publications in Geography): 26 - Softcover

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9780520097131: Architect Ideo–Geo V26: Neo-Confucian Imprinting on Cheju Island, Korea (UC Publications in Geography): 26

Synopsis

Cheju Island, Korea's historic island of exile, with a harsh natural environment, early developed a negative image as human habitat. The author challenges this perception and shows how Neo-Confucian state ideology during the Yi dynasty (A.D. 1392-1910) created and conserved the island as a viable habitat by using feng-shui--a powerful medieval science of surveying--to shape the island's built environment and quality of life. The outcome, reflecting sustained political commitment to the philosophical concept of enlightened undervelopment, was a sincere landscape inhabited by a virtuous people.

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