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

532 MILITARY REFORM and became the cutters and polishers [of their own natures], while [those knowl- edgeable in] military affai ...

MILITARY REORGANIZATION 533 If, however, education and organization were not sufficient to bring about the appearance of the per ...

534 MILITARY REFORM admonitions had little effect on transforming the military system and solving its problems. CONCL USION In m ...

MILITARY REORGANIZATION 535 reduction of forces in the capital was an admirable goal, but it would have required other measures ...

536 MILITARY REFORM on government by periodic famine conditions in his own time and the severity of Manchu survcillance against ...

CHAPTER 14 The Military Service System, 1682-187° K Samyong and others who proposed the use of some other form of taxation to fi ...

538 MILITARY REFORM amy as progress from a more ancient to a more modern mode of economic life, then the household tax represent ...

MILITARY SERVICE SYSTEM 539 payments. The country could not afford the luxury of such a large number of tax-exempt individuals, ...

540 MILITAR y REFORM ciples opposed the demand of the Patriarchs for severe punishment of their Southerner rivals, but the dispu ...

MILITA R Y S ER VICE SYSTEM 541 tion for the idea derived not from Yu hut from Song Siyol's attack on the Mili- tary Training Ag ...

542 MILITARY REFORM the Five Military Divisions amounted to an I 1.5 percent service or tax cut. The Military Training Agency"s ...

MILITARY SERVICE SYSTEM 543 tion of a stricter measure adopted back in 1626 but ignored in the interim. The regulations explaine ...

544 MILITARY REFORM regions, students would be given a special dispensation: they would have to fail the test three straight tim ...

MILITARY SERVICE SYSTEM 545 was made Taesama (grand controller of horse, a name borrowed from the Chi- nese Chou period). and gi ...

546 MILITARY REFORM recluse philosopher of practical learning. But what did that mean, especially since the 1704 reforms were no ...

MILITARY SERVICE SYSTEM 547 taxes according to whether some people are noble and others base," and he truly believed that the T' ...

548 MILITARY REFORM and rescinded six months later. Quotas were also set for students of private acad- emies as well as governme ...

MILITARY SERVICE SYSTEM 549 school students, and military officers. The idea was rejected, but the proposal contained two of the ...

550 MILITARY REFORM taxable male population. Its short tenn effects were negligible. but it might have contributed to the more n ...

MILITARY SERVICE SYSTEM 551 prospects for a departure from the early Choson system of support-taxpayer finance seemed good. Neve ...