Jung Geung-Sik

Field of Study

Years of Stay at HYI

Sep 2004 to Jun 2005

University Affiliation

JUNG Geung-Sik is Associate Professor, College of Law at Seoul National University, South Korea. His project at the Harvard-Yenching Institute examined the modes of acceptance and transformation of the Zhu Hsi’s Family Ritual(朱子家禮) in the traditional society of Korea, Japan and China from comparative perspectives. He will think over universality as well as particularity of the Li (禮). And he will try to build a theory about the acceptance and the changes in norms and laws from the East Asian viewpoints.

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