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Korean Studies

Sang-ho Ro 노상호

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  • Sang-ho Ro writes a history that examines the evolution of Korean intellectual tradition and philosophy in the late Choson period and the twentieth century. His latest monograph is a forthcoming book, Neo-Confucianism and Science in Korea: Humanity and Nature, 1706-1814 (Routledge, forthcoming). In the book, he analyzes the intellectual dynamism that Neo-Confucianism and Western science brought in Korean epistemology. He highlights how Korean intellectuals in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries reformed Neo-Confucian rationalism with a new method of empiricism. Also, he contributed to two edited books; Myongdong kilgori munhwasa (Han''gukhak chungang yon''guwon ch''ulp''anbu, 2019) in Korean and Kanryu Nichiryu (Bensei shuppan, 2014) in Japanese. In the books, he worked on inter-connectedness of Korea and her neighbors, China and Japan, in intellectual tradition and daily experience. And, his other articles cover broad topics from the history of science and technology to the history of ethnic and cultural minorities in Korea.

He has taught undergraduate courses and graduate seminars on East Asian history and culture at Ewha. He is preparing another monograph on how modern science and technology changed Korea in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He will continue to research the global connection between Korea and the outside world in early modern and modern history.