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

292 LAND REFORM existed before doing anything. The reason why their systems were well regulated was all due to this intention. T ...

LAND REFORM: COMPROMISES 293 it referred only to land retained by retired functionaries or the widows of deceased functionaries. ...

294 LAND REFORM was returned to the government. Even a pubyong regular soldier first received a land grant when he attained the ...

LAND REFORM: COMPROMISES 295 land and population statistics were not clearly known. The grades of farmland and woodland [ch()nsi ...

296 LAND REFORM On the other hand, a late Koryo official, Paek Munbo, noted in 1362 that the Koryo dynasty did in fact adopt the ...

LAND REFORM: COMPROMISES 297 Men who were not in the ranks of the soldiers still dared to receive soldier's land [kunjon). Fathe ...

298 LAND REFORM field system of the Chou - that the loss or absence of a system of state land grants to the sajak or families of ...

LAND REFORM: COMPROMISES 299 distribution and taxation] and granted land to able-bodied males. Therefore, you had the problem of ...

300 LAND REFORM appropriate. Yu commented that this was a shallow opinion based on Po's fail- ure to conduct a thorough study of ...

LAND REFORM: COMPROMISES 301 He cited Ch'eng Hao's memorial to Emperor Shen-tsung (r. 1068-86) that praised the well fields of a ...

302 LAND REFORM and prohibition of purchases above the limit. Like Li Kou, he hoped to force people back into agriculture by pro ...

LAND REfORM: COMPROMISES 303 of property among sons, the surplus lands of the "good farmers" would even- tually be reduced to th ...

304 LAND REFORM disciples because it was based primarily on an arrangement of land boundaries and areas and secondarily on popul ...

LAND REFORM: COMPROMISES 305 age distribution of the average family. If the farmers were diligent in their work, they would be a ...

306 LAND REFORM reformer in Chinese history, opposed confiscation of land from the rich for redis- tribution to the poor and lan ...

LAND REFORM: COMPROMISES 307 In the end Yeh believed there was nothing that could be done to put land in the hands of the poor, ...

308 LAND REFORM When Emperor Shen-tsung died and Wang fell from power in J085, the suc- ceeding administration abolished the sys ...

LAND REFORM: COMPROMISES 309 even carrying out a successful program of registration and progressive tax assess- ment. Wang An-sh ...

310 LAND REFORM flourish, bribery was the easy thing to do, and there was no foresight in the administration of punishments. The ...

LAND REFORM: COMPROMISES 311 land units of constant size marked by fixed boundaries as the basis for both dis- tribution and tax ...