Asian Millenarianism: An Interdisciplinary Study of the Taiping and Tonghak Rebellions in a Global Context
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The I-jing and Medicine

108

The Human Body

109

Mind and Health

111

Earth and Cosmic Cycle

112

New Geo-Physics' View of the End of the World—The Axis

115

Theory of Spin of the Earth

115

Cosmologists' Views of the End of the World

118

Ancient Korean Millenarian Doctrine and Confucianism

119

Ancient Korean Millenarian Doctrine and Buddhism

120

Ancient Korean Millenarian Doctrine, Taoism, Taiping, and Tonghak

121

Chapter Three: Traditional China and Traditional Korea—Apocalyptic Phenomena Years

127

Traditional China

128

The Structure of Traditional Chinese Society

129

The Qing Government's Policy Toward the South

135

Western Impact on China and the Crisis of the Qing

138

Traditional Korea—The Structure of Traditional Korean Society

142

The Yi Dynasty Government

144

The Japanese and Manchurian Impact and the Weakening of the Yi Dynasty

145

Western Impact and the Crisis of the Korean Nation

146

Conclusion

147

Chapter Four: The Millenarian Motivation of the Taiping and Tonghak Leaders

155

Hong Xiuquan's Background and Motivation Toward the God-Worship Society

156