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

192 SOCIAL REFORM and yuhak who did not become selected scholars would continue to be regis- tered in the Four Schools of the ca ...

NEW SCHOOLS 193 This idea contradicted his previous statement about preserving schools as sep- arate loci for egalitarian treatm ...

I94 SOCIAL REFORM slave and commoner (i.e., base and goOd).81 Since graduates of the technical schools were to be appointed to p ...

NEW SCHOOLS 195 resentment, it would also provide a great way to destroy people. What we must first do is for several years have ...

196 SOCIAL REFORM ment of nobles and commoners was abandoned; close relatives of the emperor were honored with salaries in this ...

NEW SCHOOLS I97 claiming that Chu Hsi was the one who had explained that "ranking people by age is a universal principle through ...

198 SOCIAL REFORM did not give the commoner-clerk fathers the right to demand equal status with their betters. Even though the t ...

NEW SCHOOLS 199 chants, artisans, and shamans would still remain at the bottom, and even in his new schools members of the royal ...

200 SOCIAL REFORM Yu explained that his conviction that opening up the opportunity for upward mobility on the basis of virtue or ...

NEW SCHOOLS 201 of the upper class but their improved performance by study and self-cultivation. Yu was concerned as much about ...

202 SOCIAL REFORM examination system not only for failing to obtain the best men for office, but also for wrecking public mores ...

NEW SCHOOLS 203 Criticism of the examination system and praise for schools and recommen- dation was, of course, not the exclusiv ...

204 SOCIAL REFORM man, and promoted from one scholarly title to another and afforded rank and emoluments - all part of the same ...

NEW SCHOOLS 205 CONCLUSION The importance ofYu's essay on education and recruitment, however, is not to be measured solely by th ...

206 SOCIAL REFORM reformer in seventeenth-century Korea if it were not for the powerful hold of habit and convention on Yu's min ...

NEW SCHOOLS 207 ethics, and an expansion of opportunity, mass education, and equality of treat- ment are in fact severely limite ...

CHAPTER 6 Slavery: The Slow Path to Abolition "At the present time in our country we regard slaves as chattel. Now people are al ...

SLAVER Y 209 others, slavery was seen as a necessary consequence of man's fall from grace, a deserved punishment for sinfulness. ...

2IO SOCIAL REFORM abandoned by consensus in one country after the other in the Western hemi- sphere.~ In other words, economic a ...

SLAVERY 2!! given as gifts, or inherited. They conformed to the definition of chattel property and were referred to as such, eve ...