Villages Astir: Community Development, Tradition, and Change in Korea

by John E. Turner, Dong Suh Bark, Vicki L. Hesli

Villages Astir deals with Korean rural communities that have been influenced by two civilizations: Confucian, with its emphasis on communal values and cooperation within the group, and Western, with its emphasis on the individual. Authors Turner, Hesli, Bark, and Yu focus on the changing patterns of attitudes and behavior of the rural people at two points of time covering the period when a government-sponsored program of community development...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275943720
• ISBN13: 9780275943721
• Release Date: March 1993
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"