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

732 REFORM OF GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION Mid-Seventeenth Century The community compact movement had not been much of a success in t ...

COMMUNITY COMPACT SYSTEM 733 a Mutual Meeting Association (Sanggwanhoe) modeled after the community compact to embellish their d ...

734 REFORM OF GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION regulations for community compacts in 1659. The K'ang-hsi emperor expanded the number of i ...

CHAPTER 20 Yu Hyongwon's Community Compact Regulations "The custom in this country is that we only pay respect to pedigree [munj ...

736 REFORM OF GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION Yu's PLAN FOR KOREAN LOCAL-GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION In laying out his proposed regulations ...

Yu's COMMUNITY COMPACT REGULATIONS 737 lizing the population to ensure sufficient tax collection as well as the promotion of agr ...

738 REFORM OF GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION (myon), which he referred to as hyang, not the natural villages. The people of a hyang wer ...

Yu's COMMUNITY COMPACT REGULATIONS 739 through education (kyohwa) were never divided in two. In the Chou dynasty, the local post ...

740 REFORM OF GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION moral standard for the community at large, and the members of the compact as a whole had t ...

Yu's COMMUNITY COMPACT REGULATIONS 741 the training of young orphans to keep them from bad company, and grant loans to help them ...

742 REFORM OF GOVERNMENT ORGANIZA TION or to demand something in negotiation without a proper reason for doing so, or to deceive ...

Yu's COMMUNITY COMPACT REGULATIONS 743 severity of the deed. Minor transgressions were to be punished by dropping the individual ...

744 REFORM OF GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION and heavier ones for "lower persons," he had to be referring to the yangban and slaves of ...

Yu's COMMUNITY COMPACT REGULATIONS 745 and private slaves (kongch on and sach on) would be seated in a separate group apart from ...

746 REFORM OF GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION itself. "How could anyone change an institution that has been carried on since ancient tim ...

Yu's COMMUNITY COMPACT REGULATIONS 747 muson (men who passed the select military examinations), and those who had undergone the ...

748 REFORM OF GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION of the strict Confucian moral code. Scholars who abhored being forced to par- ticipate in ...

Yu's COMMUNITY COMPACT REGULATIONS 749 nothos was not to be allowed to remain seated on a horse if a man of legitimate birth pas ...

750 REFORM OF GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION No Freedom ()f Discussion Finally, Yu showed no sign of even nascent interest in free and ...

Yu's COMMUNITY COMPACT REGULATIONS 751 fundamental texts like the Sohak, which concentrated on reducing moral teach- ing to the ...