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Confucian statecraft and Korean Institutions : Yu Hyŏngwŏn and the late Chosŏn Dynasty /

Seventeenth-century Korea was a country in crisis--successive invasions by Hideyoshi and the Manchus had rocked the Chosòn dynasty (1392-1910), which already was weakened by maladministration, internecine bureaucratic factionalism, unfair taxation, concentration of wealth, military problems, and ot...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Palais, James B., 1934-2006 (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2014]
Colección:Korean studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Confucian statecraft in the founding of Chosŏn
  • The disintegration of the early Chosŏn system to 1592
  • Post-Imjin developments in military defense and the economy
  • Remolding the ruling class through education and schools
  • New schools: conservative restraints on radicalism
  • Slavery: the slow path to abolition
  • Land reform: compromises with the well-field model
  • Redistributing wealth through land reform
  • Late Chosŏn land reform proposals
  • The royal division model: rotating duty soldiers and support taxpayers
  • The debate over the military training agency, 1651-82
  • The search for alternative modes of military finance
  • Military reorganization, weapons, and walls
  • The military service system, 1682-1870
  • The king and his court
  • Reforming the central beaurocracy
  • Personnel policy
  • Provincial and local administration
  • The community compact system (Hyangyak)
  • Yu Hyŏng-wŏn's community compact regulations
  • Tribute and Taedong reform
  • The Taedong model for official salaries and expenses
  • Copper cash and the monetary system
  • Yu Hyŏng-wŏn's analysis of currency
  • A cycle of inflation and deflation
  • Cash and economic change after 1731.