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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. Authorized translation by Dr. Young-ja Ko of Dr. Nemeth's 1987 English-language first edition (Berkeley: University of California Press).
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enlightened underdevelopment, traditional cultural landscape, Neo-Confucianism, geomancy, feng shui, cosmic landscapePeople
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Jeju (Cheju) Island, South KoreaTimes
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Architecture of Ideology by David J. Nemeth (in Korean-language Translation): Neo-Confucian Imprinting on Cheju Island, Korea
2012, Jeju City Woodang Library
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