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

352 LAND REFORM a misdirected examination system or by personal, familial, or factional connection and patronage. Just as privat ...

REDISTRIBUTING WEALTH 353 Nonetheless the new system would have differed from the old in certain impor- tant ways. The sadaebu e ...

CHAPTER 9 Late Choson Land Reform Proposals WAS THERE A LEGACY TO Yu's LAND REFORM PLAN? Most students of the Practical Learning ...

LATE CHaSON PROPOSALS 355 If, on the other hand, progress means a tendency toward modernity, as Ch'on K wan 'u has suggested, th ...

356 LAND REFORM by nonprogressive landlords who exploited their landholdings and peasant ten- ants and laborers for their own co ...

LATE CHOSON PROPOSALS 357 China, simply abolished private ownership and began by distributing the land to peasant families, but ...

358 LAND REFORM still, nonagricultural industrial enterprise, to gain even larger profits.^6 But there is little solid evidence ...

LATE CHOSON PROPOSALS 359 settled, or migrant laborers who worked either for room and board or a small wage. In the late eightee ...

360 LAND REFORM The impoverishment of the less industrious peasant or landless tenants could have been a necessary but unfortuna ...

LATE CHOSON PROPOSALS 361 whole had probably declined severely by the late seventeenth century. Unfor- tunately, the validity of ...

362 LAND REFORM or gain office, and it would appear that many of them were reduced to difficult economic circumstances and event ...

LATE CHOSON PROPOSALS 363 on a measure of the crop harvested relative to the amount of seed planted on the most fertile coastal ...

364 LAND REFORM the beginning of the dynasty, reflecting the pathetic agricultural conditions after the invasions and the govern ...

LATE CHOSON PROPOSALS 365 of higher ratios of production on the most fertile land in Korea that would have yielded a total produ ...

366 LAND REFORM converted to bushels per acre, the amount would be 15.29 bushels/acre for 1400, 22.33 bushels/acre for 1770, and ...

LATE CHOSON PROPOSALS 367 increase in production allowed a growth of population (from 9.8 to 12.3 million according to Michell), ...

368 LAND REFORM major causes of rebellion as the absence of adequate credit, usurious interest rates, and the regressive and opp ...

LATE CHOSON PROPOSALS 369 He imagined that in the Chou in the upland areas the fields were all dry and the boundaries were set b ...

370 LAND REFORM feared the threat to political stability posed by a discontented landlord class? I would prefer the latter. Had ...

LATE CHOSON PROPOSALS 371 Furthermore, the plight of some tenants had increased because they now had to pay the land tax and sup ...