Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. Foundations
  • The indigenous descent groups of Silla and Koryo
  • Crisis of identity: new dynastic venture
  • The challenge of Neo-Confucianism
  • Part II. Rebuilding the countryside
  • Repossessing the countryside: the formation of localized elite
  • Consolidation of localized elites in mid-dynasty: the social dimensions
  • Consolidation of localized elites in mid-dynasty: the economic
  • Part III. Confucian learning and practice
  • The Sajok elites as Confucian learners
  • Ritual practice and the early formation of localized lineages
  • Communal stratification and local-level leadership
  • Part IV. Divisions and bonding
  • Center and periphery: divorce of interests
  • The maturation of the lineage system: identity and locality
  • Learning and politics: orthodoxy contested
  • Part V. Survival in a changing world
  • Transformation within stability: sustain
  • The end of Sajok supremacy?