{"id":5998,"date":"2010-02-25T23:05:12","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T04:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/korea\/?p=389"},"modified":"2014-08-30T14:21:50","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T14:21:50","slug":"things-i-dont-know-about-korea-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2010\/02\/things-i-dont-know-about-korea-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Things I don&#8217;t know about Korea, part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m having great fun with this class, but I&#8217;m still discovering vast areas of ignorance as we move along:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Eunuchs: The Kabo reforms abolish the office of Eunuchs, but how many were there and how important?<\/li>\n<li>Seven Day Week? By 1896 there clearly is a seven day week in place, but when was that put in place? Is it part of the Kabo calendrical reforms?<\/li>\n<li>The books I&#8217;m reading don&#8217;t refer to Tonghak and to early Progressives (or conservatives) as &#8220;nationalist&#8221;: They call them &#8220;incipient&#8221; and &#8220;proto&#8221; but won&#8217;t actually admit to modern nationalism until 1905 or 1910. Do they think &#8216;nationalism&#8217; only exists in a modern context, and Korea&#8217;s context isn&#8217;t modern until some kind of political transition? This seems arbitrary: though Korea may not be modernizing <i>effectively<\/i> in the 19c, I find it hard to see how Korea&#8217;s not pretty well enmeshed in a modern context by, say, 1880. I suppose you could have the ever-popular &#8220;is anti-imperialism really nationalism&#8221; debate all over again (it&#8217;s kind of fun to do with the Boxers, once), but it seems unnecessarily fussy to me, at least on first reading. I don&#8217;t see what distinction they&#8217;re making and they&#8217;re not explaining it, either. We shouldn&#8217;t use jargon unless we&#8217;re willing to explain it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m having great fun with this class, but I&#8217;m still discovering vast areas of ignorance as we move along: Eunuchs: The Kabo reforms abolish the office of Eunuchs, but how many were there and how important? Seven Day Week? By 1896 there clearly is a seven day week in place, but when was that put&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[119,129,211,228],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-historiography","category-korea","category-late-chsn"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9yoH3-1yK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6024,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5998\/revisions\/6024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}