Confucian Statecraft and Korean Institutions: Yu Hyongwon and the Late Choson Dynasty by James B. Palais

Confucian Statecraft and Korean Institutions: Yu Hyongwon and the Late Choson Dynasty

Korean Studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies

James B. Palais

1279 pages • missing pub info (editions)

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

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