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

332 LAND REFORM against their neighbors, even prior to the completion of the earthworks. After redistribution, the land register ...

REDISTRIBUTING WEALTH 333 departed from the chOnsi!c.va system in two ways. He explicitly provided for land grants to commoner p ...

334 LAND REFORM Since the matrilineal slave succession law was designed only to reduce the num- ber of slave offspring of mixed ...

REDISTRIBUTING WEALTH 335 human desire fueled by the instructions of the classics and the ethical statesmen and scholars of the ...

336 LAND REFORM extra land grants were to perform the function of the feudal eh 'aeji of the Chou period, which meant that they ...

REDISTRIBUTING WEALTH 337 or without office) and it had resulted, or more accurately, reinforced, the dom- inance of a semihered ...

338 LAND REFORM "Some say that if all the sadaebu have to write their names in the land regis- ters, it will bother them. I say ...

REDISTRIBUTING WEALTH 339 entrusted [control over the people] to their stewards [kiin 1." Yu noted that these agents or stewards ...

340 LAND REFORM places and assigned to thousands of individuals."87 Prebends would cause administrative difficulties in keeping ...

REDISTRIBUTING WEALTH 341 As in the case of the larger land allotments to the sadaebu, land taxes would be paid to the state but ...

342 LAND REFORM produced scholars and officials) would also receive land grants (albeit in larger sizes than the commoner peasan ...

REDISTRIBUTING WEALTH 343 subjects already received salaries, it would be sufficient simply to give them addi- tional land grant ...

344 LAND REFORM ancient system; that is, it was similar to the ch 'aeji arrangements of the Chou. But under the terms of the ch ...

REDISTRIBUTING WEALTH 345 because it had to include educated and morally cultivated men who would pro- vide a pool of leadership ...

346 LAND REFORM provinces. Not only royal relatives but central government agencies and influ- ential magnates as well were allo ...

REDISTRIBUTING WEALTH 347 would inherit their status and privileges in perpetuity. The eldest legitimate son of each generation ...

348 LAND REFORM relationship and ~lm residual privilege contained an inner logic. This attitude is revealed in a brief discussio ...

REDISTRIBUTING WEALTH 349 the Loyal and Righteous Guards or the Loyal and Ohedient Guards, then he is entitled to treatment as a ...

350 LAND REFORM Although he found contemporary discrimination against nothoi excessive and sought to remove some of the restrict ...

REDISTRIBUTING WEALTH 35I Status distinction, privilege, and discrimination was a different matter alto- gether. While true that ...