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

5I2 MILITARY REFORM of the sixteenth century the country was defended by a thin line of coastal army bases - both the original f ...

MILITARY REORGANIZATION 513 The provincial command garrisons, the chin 'gwan, would be headed by gar- rison commanders called Ch ...

514 MILITARY REFORM because it was in tune with the hierarchy of military units recorded in the Rites of Chou. Even though the s ...

MILITARY REORGANIZATION 515 them at each garrison and have them examined on the four military classics and the writings of Ch'i ...

516 MILITARY REFORM these men are plaeed in the midst of arrows and stones where they have to fight to the death and give their ...

MILITARY REORGANIZATION 517 Duty Assignments His most serious concern, however, was for problems of organization, particu- larly ...

518 MILITARY REFORM (sahuson). The warship was a masted brig of war with a crew of 80 boatmen and oarsmen, and 77 musketeers (p ...

MILITARY REORGANIZATIO]\; 519 day was that it indicated a continuation of the same deficiencies that had weak- ened Korean force ...

520 MILITARY REFORM because of custom. They say that the silk-clad gentry and the people in the streets all consider the muskete ...

MILITARY REORGANIZATION 521 while the smallest district only had to furnish 1 musket, 4 kiin of gunpowder, and 200 rounds every ...

522 MILITARY REFORM weapons was not up to the standard of Japanese muskets. When the Ch'ing court demanded 100 muskets from Kore ...

MILITARY REORGANIZATION 523 his successor as commander of the Royal Division, Yu Hyogyon, Hyojong also created a new 5 r o-man u ...

524 MILITARY REFORM Nitrate Bureau (Yonsoch'ong) in 1650, but its facilities and operation were less than adequate; the nitrates ...

MILITARY REORGANIZATION 525 a number of constraints of which Yu was apparcntly unaware. Since almost every- one at court was con ...

526 MILITARY REFORM of constmction in minute detail, including distances of travel for workers, food and provisions, limits on t ...

MILITARY REORGANIZATION 527 not go against what is proper in terms of the lay of the land."67 Yu took to heart the classical adm ...

528 MILITARY REFORM pIe .... " All such work units were to be coordinated in a military chain of com- mand: every five men under ...

MILITARY REORGANIZATION 529 of the wall, or the use of peepholes along the base as recently introduced into China. The Chinese a ...

530 MILITARY REFORM service from starving peasants was a cruel injustice, was similar to the Confu- cian admonition that Yu had ...

MILITARY REORGANIZATION 531 MILITARY EDUCATION AND THE TOTALLY MOBILIZED POPULATION One of the major themes of twentieth-century ...