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

592 REFORM OF GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION act of cultivation, the mler had to encourage provincial governors and district magistratc ...

KING AND COURT 593 Yu also traced evidence of observance of these ceremonies in the Han dynasty, the Northern Wei in the late fi ...

594 REFORM OF GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION t'u), rites (Tsung-po), war (Ssu-ma), punishments (Ssu-k'ou), and economy (Ssu- kung). Yu ...

KING AND COURT 595 only the Six Ministries but the whole bureaucracy. The State Council had been created in 1400 by King Chongjo ...

596 REFORM OF GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION sized the need for a single prime minister. The initial motivation behind the use of two o ...

KING AND COURT 597 (Yukcho), which were to be subordinated to the State Council. This had been an important issuc at the he ginn ...

598 REFORM OF GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION because Emperor Hstian-tsung was indiscriminate in his recruitment of these supposed schol ...

KING AND COURT 599 supreme governing boards of the T'ang and Sung dynasty, such as the Depart- ment of State Affairs (Shang-shu ...

600 REFORM OF GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION male line of the feudal lords of large states, sage kings, or illustrious individu- als. I ...

KING AND COURT 601 point of view. All matters inside and out are the fami Iy affairs of the Emperor and there is no principle wh ...

602 REFORM OF GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION Court Audiences: Accessibility It is obvious from Yu's advocacy for the restoration of the ...

KING AND COURT 603 dard audience was held daily at the Hall of Convenience (Pyonjon) for his min- isters, and the court audience ...

604 REFORM OF GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION Heavenly Light [the Emperor's countenance], and then bow down, prostrate thcmselves, and k ...

KIN G AND Co U R T 605 model kings of the past that had obviated the development of current flaws, all of which had been the pro ...

606 REFORM OF GOVERN ME NT ORGANIZATION either on the winter solstice or his own birthday. T'ai-tsu's piety should have served f ...

KING AND COURT 607 derived from Chou institutions in spirit, but more specifically from the details ofT'ang procedure. .)) His m ...

608 REFORM OF GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION The mler must empty his mind and look forward to the minister's expression of view, and th ...

KING AND COURT 609 served privileged royal status to the fifth generation of descent, but he did think that he could introduce a ...

6IO REFORM OF GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION A second theme in Yu's treatment of the king was his use of ritual to achieve certain mora ...

KING AND COURT 61 I obviously felt that a restoration of dynastic fortunes had to be dependent on the structure of the bureaucra ...