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

I72 SOCIAL REFORM of equality. Human beings, after all, shared an aspect of similitude: "What we have in common is that we are a ...

NEW SCHOOLS 173 examination quotas favored residents of the capital over the countryside and the southern agricultural heartland ...

174 SOCIAL REFORM too, probably represents his preference for incentives over force when dealing with the scholar class. 17 Neve ...

NEW SCHOOLS 175 National Academy was being recommended for an official post, the recommendor would agree to acccept punishment i ...

176 SOCIAL REFORM be allowed at the National Academy. Four times a year written examinations (chesul) would be conducted in the ...

NEW SCHOOLS I77 of the written word to the relatively minor role it played in a more militaristic and feudal society like Tokuga ...

178 SOCIAL REFORM to a court position until the age of forty. Yu attributed the idea for a forty-year age minimum to Confucius's ...

NEW SCHOOLS 179 an integral part of the ancient model and certainly no independent creation of his, but his readiness to use for ...

ISO SOCIAL REFORM and student would be dismissed and enlisted for service.^35 Finally, commuters who resided in the national or ...

NEW SCHOOLS 181 were not able to read his books, he would have to practice "quiet sitting and preservation (or concentration) of ...

r82 SOCIAL REFORM parties were obscene distortions of the rules of the Book of Rites for honoring fathers at banquets. "How coul ...

NEW SCHOOLS 183 Only authorized classics and other texts could be included in school libraries, and Yu urged that they be publis ...

184 SOCIA L REFORM the importance of archery. In both the classical and postclassical literature on archery, there seem to have ...

NEW SCHOOLS I8S in the regular school system since these specialties were important for the train- ing of regular officials. Sin ...

186 SOCIAL REFORM This point is illustrated by his use of quotas to restrict the numbers of stu- dents in the specialist schools ...

NEW SCHOOLS I87 Yu contrasted the situation with his understanding of contemporary China in which every prefecture and district ...

188 SOCIAL REFORM nical professions and to remove the stigma attached to technical knowledge. Yu was determined to elevate the r ...

NEW SCHOOLS r89 (hyangyak) that if a person did not belong to the class of scholars (saryu), he should not be ranked with them. ...

190 SOCIAL REFORM for rank order, particularly at the important ritual ceremonies, would be age instead of inherited status, wit ...

NEW SCHOOLS 19T tions against traditional objects of discrimination, it meant that he had no idea of opening the path of opportu ...