The antinomy of divine right and the right to resistance : tianming, dei gratia, and vox populi in Syngman Rhee's Korea, 1945-1960
With the rise of industrial East Asia in the latter half of this "American Century," Confucianism has been blamed and blessed, condemned and condoned with equal fervor by intellectuals of both Confucian and Judeo-Christian backgrounds. Because a nation's life-orientation--that is, "culture," in the broadest sense--is embedded in seemingly immutable and distinct primordial ties, such as, language, religion and tradition, it is often deemed, much like and individual's "character" or "personality," as the root of all national success and failure
Thesis, Dissertation, English, 1998
1998