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

372 LAND REFORM military officials were left out. He confessed that he had been trying to work out a solution for some form of r ...

LATE CHOSON PROPOSALS 373 statecraft thinkers at the tum of the nineteenth century, Tasan (pen name of Chong Yagyong), was willi ...

374 LAND REFORM feasible: if the 800,000 kyol of land in the country (as registered in 1769) were divided among the population o ...

LATE CHOSON PROPOSALS 375 Like Yu Hyongwon Tasan also argued that the equal-field system of the North- ern Wei and Tang dynastie ...

376 LAND REFORM in these useful scholarly pursuits would be entitled to adequate compensation for their labors, and only the mos ...

LATE CHOSON PROPOSALS 377 lands (tllnjon) controlled by civil and military officials, and convert them to well- field lands with ...

378 LAND REFORM family, 25 myo, would have been about IO turak or 1.6 acres. He also mentioned that 100 myo in Ch611a Province ( ...

LATE CHaSON PROPOSALS 379 hire slaves indicated that he was more interested in borrowing the rational meth- ods of rich peasants ...

380 LAND REFORM S6 YUGU According to Kim Yongs6p, another representative of the new tide of rational planning and efficiency in ...

LATE CHOSON PROPOSALS 381 crop rotation practiced on dry fields in Hwanghae and Pyong'an provinces would also be used. Peasants ...

382 LAND REFORM the land by the government and appointed to that post. He presumed that such individuals should be able to creat ...

LATE CHOSON PROPOSALS 383 cratic hierarchy, the king. The concept of popular sovereignty, or the legitimate political role of th ...

PART III Land Reform: Conclusion Yu's LEGACY The most interesting aspect of Yu Hyongwon's discussion of land tenure was his atte ...

PART III CONCLUSION 385 intellectual disciples like Yi lk did not necessarily subscribe to all elements of his plan. THE CHALLEN ...

386 LAND REFORM reformist scholars as well as officials and kings were forced to make conces- sions to the dominant power of the ...

PART III CONCL USION 387 standards. And it is quite possible that Tasan adopted this position at the tum of the nineteenth centu ...

388 LAND REFORM PROGRESS: TECHNOLOGY AND COMMERCIAL AGRICULTURE In recent years, many Korean scholars have revised the criteria ...

PART III CONCLUSION 389 that was probably stymied by population growth by the end of the seventeenth century. On the contrary, b ...

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PART IV Military Reform INTRODUCTION Yu Hyongwon began writing his Pan' gye surok around 1650, thirteen years after the humiliat ...