Catholics and Anti-Catholicism in Chosŏn Korea

by Franklin Rausch and Don Baker

Korea's first significant encounter with the West occurred in the last quarter of the eighteenth century when a Korean Catholic community emerged on the peninsula. Decades of persecution followed, resulting in the deaths of thousands of Korean Catholics. Don Baker provides an invaluable analysis of late-Chosŏn (1392-1897) thought, politics, and society to help readers understand the response of Confucians to Catholicism and of Korean Catholics...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824879260
• ISBN13: 9780824879266
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 9.0"