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

252 SOCIAL REFORM percent in 1729 to 14-4 percent in 1867. The main reason for the decline in the number of slaves was that abou ...

SLAVERY 253 He also quoted Wang Mang on the perversity of penning up people in slave markets like animals (a statement Yu had ei ...

254 SOCIAL REFORM into an illicit takeover of public land (kongjon) as well as the land of ordinary peasants by the scholar-offi ...

SLAVERY 255 reduce revenues. Current practice, however, involved the short-sighted pursuit of immediate profit by squeezing offi ...

256 SOCIAL REFORM that the yangban had only emerged as a distinct social class in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centu ...

SLAVERY 257 had been reduced to inherited indentured servants, Yu Suwon's version of hired labor may well be an accurate picture ...

258 SOCIAL REFORM state took place in the eighteenth century. Early in the history of the dynasty official slaves were divided i ...

SLAVERY 259 or ensuring accuracy in reporting, they demanded payments in excess of the legal quotas as well as gratuities and tr ...

260 SOCIAL REFORM tribute levies on female slaves was not even a part of the tsu~yung-tiao triple tax system (of the T'ang dynas ...

SLAVERY 26r were supposed to be living and registered in their home villages in the coun- tryside and liable for service or trib ...

262 SOCIAL REFORM Korea), written between I7S6 and I7S8 in the style of Chu Hsi's T'ung-chien kang-mu. 195 An had learned ofYu H ...

SLAVERY 263 was incompatible with sagehood. Since An had occupied the post of adviser and tutor to King Chongjo when he had been ...

264 SOCIAL REFORM by the otherwise apparently laudable attempt to manumit illegally enslaved per- sons because it would let slav ...

SLAVERY 265 could successfully replace slave labor, on the grounds that Chinese customs were not adaptable to Korean circumstanc ...

266 SOCIAL REFORM to auxiliary soldier and allowing them to form special units intermediate in sta- tus between the units compos ...

SLAVERY 267 to discriminate against one group in favor of another. The king should "not dis- tinguish between the noble and base ...

268 SOCIAL REFORM The decree also cited the reforms of previous kings, the reduction of slave tribute by both Kings Sukchong and ...

SLAVERY 269 in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries weakened the boundaries between slaves and commoners and permitted more o ...

270 SOCIAL REFORM level of human freedom or economic development? Certainly the removal of the social stigma, legal discriminati ...

PART II Social Reform: Yangban and Slaves: Conclusion One of the major goals of Yu Hyongwon's work was to rectify the distortion ...