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

312 LAND REFORM obtain what [they require] and all plans would turn out well. Even though you would not delineate the shape of a ...

CHAPTER 8 Redistributing Wealth through Land Reform "If [land] is publicly [owned], the people will have regular production, the ...

314 LAND REFORM person does not obtain his share. If [land] is privately [owned], everything will be contrary to this and that i ...

REDISTRIBUTING WEALTH 315 Lin Hsiin of the Southern Sung, who counted on the division of property among heirs and a limited-fiel ...

316 LAND REFORM implementation of punishments became lax "in the slightest, the law will be ignored." '.1 Yu's third objection t ...

REDISTRIBUTING WEALTH 317 mitted to family solidarity should have argued that state ownership and bureau- cratic control, and no ...

318 LAND REFORM than limited ownership because it was still based on private property and unre- stricted private transactions. M ...

REDISTRIBUTING WEALTH 319 incentive to produce than the sharecropper who had no sense of attachment to the land at all. The conc ...

320 LAND REFORM As if this were not clear enough, he expanded on the theme in a footnote: In the final analysis you must have a ...

REDISTRIBUTING WEALTH 32I nationalization of land the people would be granted the leeway to make private exchanges of different ...

322 LAND REFORM have no land at all, [or should we] be concerned over the fact that after land is equally distrihuted to all the ...

REDISTRIBUTING WEALTH 323 standard measures was followed later, from the Hsia through Chou dynasties. Even Lord Shang in the Ch' ...

324 LAND REFORM tible to corruption, and more likely to ensure fair and progressive taxation. He reported that at the beginning ...

REDISTRIBUTING WEALTH 325 the taxes are all the same, but the kyol varies in accordance with the fertility of the land."37 Yu fe ...

326 LAND REFORM field system [in post-Chou times], they still determined land area in paces [po] and m:vo and had nine classific ...

REDISTRIBUTING WEALTH 327 probably far less important than the power relations in the villages and the lax- ity of administratio ...

~28 LAND REFORM If we had a king lacking in hright virtue and ministers who all pursued their own personal benefit and profit, t ...

REDISTRIBUTING WEALTH 329 always principle, and that alone. Wherc principlc was to he found, even though [sage rulers] had to ex ...

330 LAND REFORM How much the more so [should a righteous king be able to enforce confiscation and enactment of a kongjiJn system ...

REDISTRIBUTING WEALTH 331 When a male fanner reached the age of twenty, he would receive his land grant from the state, although ...