Confucian Statecraft and Korean Institutions. Yu Hyongwon and the Late Choson Dynasty - James B. Palais

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Confucian Statecraft and Korean Institutions Yu Hyongwon and the Late Choson Dynasty JAMES B. PALAIS University of Washington Pr ...

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Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction 3 PART I. THE EARLY CHOSON DYNASTY, 1392- I. Confucian Statecraft in the Founding of C ...

vi CONTENTS 1 I. The Debate over the Military Training Agency, 1651-82 The Search for Alternative Modes of Military Finance ...

Acknowledgments During the course of research and preparation of this manuscript I received financial aid from the National Endo ...

Vlll ACKNOWLEDGMENTS My greatest debt is to my wife, Jane, who has shared weal and woe with me for over thirty years, and endure ...

Confucian Statecraft and Korean Institutions Yu Hyongwon and the Late Choson Dynasty ...

lOll 200 Kilnmctcrs __ Provincial Boundaries ----------Rivers Cities Hwanghae (Yellow Sea) Cheju ISI(::J Korea Tonghae (East ...

Introduction Since liberation from Japanese colonial rule in 1945 Korean historians have been waging a mighty struggle to rid th ...

4 INTRODUCTION between landlords and tenants and slaveholders and slaves. Commoner tenants as well as slaves were subjected to d ...

INTRODUCTION 5 up on the prospect of an official career and chose to spend the rest of his life in scholarly contemplation and w ...

6 INTRODUCTION icy waned almost to the point of extinction. Since all active officials in the reg- ular bureaucracy of the Choso ...

INTRODUCTION 7 transition from the Koryn to Choson dynasties in the late fourteenth century. The opportunity for Yu Hyongwon's m ...

8 INTRODUCTION bureaucracy until the middle of the eighteenth century when they began to affect some active officials who cited ...

INTRODUCTION 9 Discussing the writings of an armchair scholar when his work was unknown to men who counted in government affairs ...

IO INTRODUCTION Nevertheless, what was certainly lacking was an exaltation of reason as a cri- terion of knowledge higher than t ...

INTRODUCTION II promise with current reality pose a far more complex problem than Kim was willing to allow.^6 Igi Debate and Sir ...