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

52 EARLY CHOSCm DYNASTY warp threads by Cheng Hsuan in his commentary on the funeral rituals of the classic I-Ii (The Book of Et ...

CONFUCIAN STATECRAFT 53 establishment of the Choson dynasty in 1392. These earlier developments were obviously the product of th ...

54 EARLY CHOSON DYNASTY Monetary policy in early Choson began with two failed attempts to introduce paper money. In 1401 King T' ...

CONFUCIAN STATECRAFT 55 for Providing Aid (Sasomsi) established thirty smelting ovens that produced 48,060 kun (50,666Ibs.) of c ...

56 EARLY CHOSON DYNASTY glers shipped it to Japan in violation of the law. The government responded by ordering executions for t ...

CONFUCIAN STATECRAFT 57 Sejong's Attempt to Restore Paper Money and Cash Sejong may have been depressed by his experience with c ...

58 EARLY CHOSON DYNASTY Cotton cloth, called "ordinary 5-sae cloth" (sang osungp'o), began to replace ramie cloth in the market, ...

CONFUCIAN STATECRAFT 59 sixteenth century. By ISIS some of the rough cotton cloth (ch 'up '0) used for currency had been debased ...

60 EARLY CHOSON DYNASTY and the examinations was achieved. So, too, had the desire for concentrating on agricultural production ...

CHAPTER 2 The Disintegration of the Early Choson System to 1592 1he system of control established at the beginning of the dynast ...

62 EARLY CHOSON DYNASTY of moral outrage. There was just no regular, peaceful, and easy mechanism in the Confucian traditional m ...

DISINTEGRATION OF THE EARLY CHOSON 63 Hereditary Factionalism after 1575 In the next generation, the effects of political disput ...

64 EARLY CHOSON DYNASTY subject altogether because as a descendant of a Northerner, he would have risked execution. I would sugg ...

DISINTEGRATION OF THE EARLY CHOSON 65 prebendal rights to waste or unreclaimed land to petitioners for prebends, which meant tha ...

66 EARLY CHaSON DYNASTY officials with prebends were no longer able to collect the land tax, they were still allowed to collect ...

DISINTEGRATION OF THE EARLY CHaSON 67 appearance of the kwajon prebendal system, but this view requires some mod- ification. Pri ...

68 EARLY CHOSON DYNASTY tion and transplantation. By the middle of the sixteenth century almost all the arable land in the south ...

DISINTEGRA TlON OF THE EARLY CHaSON 69 signs of hardship. Impoverished peasants became more mobile as they moved out of their na ...

70 EARLY CHOSON DYNASTY slave tenants, while more and more of the commoner peasant population were reduced to marginal sharecrop ...

DISINTEGRATION OF THE EARLY CHOSON 71 stitute payments at prices higher than the capital market, or pay bribes to avoid a second ...