I080 NOTES TO CHAPTER 9
- Yu provided equivalents in terms of land area, but since productivity and fertility
varied, a soo-kok prehend would vary in land area from So kw)ng of first-grade land to
2S0 kyrillg of ninth-grade lanel. Ibid.
- Ibid. [:Rh-9a.
- Ibid. I :9a.
9S. Ibid. 1 :qb.
- Ibid. [: lob.
- Ibid. I: lOa.
9S. Ibid.
- Ibid. I: lOa-b.
- See the definition of yiieh-ti (yo/chi) in Morohashi Tetsuji, ed., Daikanwa jiten
[0:214·
[o!. PGSR l:lOb-IIa.
lO2. Ihid. [: II a.
lO3. Edward Willett Wagner, The Literati Purges: Political Conflict in Early Yi Korea.
(Cambridge: East Asian Research Center, Harvard University, 1974); sce also Chong
Tuhui, "Chos6n ch'ogi samgongsin yon'gu: ku sahoejok paegyiinggwa chClngch'ij6k
yokhwarul chungsimuro" [A study of the three merit subject lists of the early Chos6n
period, in particular their social background and political role], Yr)ksa hakpo 7S-76
(December 1977):121-76.
- PGSR 1 :S7b-SSb, 66a. James B. Palais, Politics and Policy in Traditional Korea
(Camhridge: Harvard University Press, 1975), pp. 7S-S2.
lOS. PGSR I:2Ia.
- See the definition in Yang Chudong, Min T'aesik, and Yi Hongjik, ed., Hanhan-
daesajon (Seoul: Tong'a eh'ulp'ansa, 1963), p. [[ 39.
lO7. PGSR 1 S'la.
lOS. Ihid.
- Ibid. [:S3a.
rIO. Sec Bruce Cumings's analysis of the use of organic or corporate models in con-
temporary North Korea. "Corporatism in North Korea," pp. 269-94.
III. PGSR 1 :S3a-h.
[ 12. For land grants, see ibid. 1 :32b; for membership in the royal guards, sec ibid.
[ :S3b.
[ 13. Ibid. I:32b.
[ [4. So in this context means nothoi, hut as the dehate over mouming rites in the mid-
seventeenth century brought out, some believed that 5'6 only meant all sons but the eldest
son of a wife, not the sons of a concubine.
[IS. PGSR [:33a.
- Ibid. 1 :32h.
CHAPTER 9. Late Chos6n Land Reform Proposals
I. Sec B. A. Holderness. Pre-Industrial England: EconolllY and Society. 150()-I750
(Totowa, N.J.: J.M. Dent and Sons, 1976), pp. 7S-S2, for the conversion of seigneurial
