{"id":12518,"date":"2020-02-24T00:32:30","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T00:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/?p=12518"},"modified":"2020-04-28T00:31:19","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T00:31:19","slug":"meiji-revolution-and-the-emergence-of-the-political-culture-of-the-literati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/2020\/02\/24\/meiji-revolution-and-the-emergence-of-the-political-culture-of-the-literati\/","title":{"rendered":"Meiji Revolution and the Emergence of the Political Culture of the Literati"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;12519&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;3\/4&#8243;][vc_column_text]\n<ul>\n<li><strong><strong><strong><strong>Author: <\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong>Hun Park<\/li>\n<li><strong>Publication Date:<\/strong>\u00a0December \/ 2019<\/li>\n<li><strong>Publisher:<\/strong>\u00a0SNU Press<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Most historians have understood the Meiji Revolution from modernist viewpoints emphasizing the &#8216;Western Impact&#8217; as the determinant of Japan\u2019s transformation toward a modern state. However, we can find out a more influential factor which shook the political stability of the early modern Tokugawa regime. It was the increasing spread of the &#8216;political culture of Confucian literati&#8217; promoted by the fever of Confucianism study during the former half of the nineteenth century.<\/p>\n<p>As numerous schools and study groups emerged since late eighteen century, many samurai became eager to learn various studies, mostly Confucianism. Lower samurai, who had been warriors of functionaries (\u540f) remote from political arena, became politicized to take part in political decision making. The author proposes to name this phenomenon as the \u2018Samurai&#8217;s assumption of the role of Confucian literati (\u58eb\u5316)&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Samurai began to challenge political establishments using the means such as petitions, academic networks and school-based political factions embodied in the \u2018political culture of Confucian literati&#8217; which had been established in Song and Ming China and Chos\u014fn Korea. This way of political situation unexpectedly emerged in the nineteenth century Japan which had originally been a &#8216;garrison state.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>During the over two hundred years of peace, the majority of samurai became functionaries who had little voice in political decision making. Yet, they started to become \u00a0Shi (\u58eb) who presented themselves as political activists who are responsible to their own state and society.<\/p>\n<p>The author argues that this samurai\u2019s turn to \u2018Shi\u2019 were the most important factor that brought about the great disturbances and collapse of Tokugawa regime during the mid-nineteen century. Even after the beginning of radical westernization, it continued to be influential until the end of the nineteenth century.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;12519&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;3\/4&#8243;][vc_column_text] Author: Hun Park Publication Date:\u00a0December \/ 2019 Publisher:\u00a0SNU Press [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Most historians have understood the Meiji Revolution from modernist viewpoints emphasizing the &#8216;Western Impact&#8217; as the determinant of Japan\u2019s transformation toward a modern state. However, we can find out a more influential factor which shook the political stability of the early modern Tokugawa regime. 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The author proposes to name this phenomenon as the \u2018Samurai&#8217;s assumption of&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12519,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-publications","category-snuac-series-in-asian-studies-kor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12520,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12518\/revisions\/12520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}