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Between dreams and reality : the military examination in late Chosŏn Korea, 1600-1894 /
"From the mid-seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century, millions of Korean men from all walks of life trained in the arts of war to prepare not for actual combat but to sit for the state military examination (mukwa). Despite this widespread interest, only for a small minority did passing the t...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Published by the Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press,
2007.
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| Series: | Harvard East Asian monographs ;
281. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- The early military examination system
- The rise of a military Aristocracy
- Local elites and the military examination
- Yangban cohesiveness and the Choson Dynasty
- Nonelites and the military examination.