Download or read book Catholics and Anti-Catholicism in Chosŏn Korea written by Don Baker and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Korea's first significant encounter with the West occurred in the last quarter of the 18th century when a Korean Catholic community emerged on the peninsula. Decades of persecution followed. Don Baker provides an invaluable analysis of late-Choson thought, politics, and society to help readers understand the response of Confucians to Catholicism and of Korean Catholics to years of harassment.