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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Seattle :
University of Washington Press,
[2014]
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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.