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

by James B. Palais

Book Overview

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, concentration of wealth, military problems, and other ills. Yu Hyongwon (1622-1673, pen name, Pan'gye), a recluse scholar, responded to this time of chaos and uncertainty by writing his modestly titled...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295974559
• ISBN13: 9780295974552
• Release Date: July 1996
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 1288 Pages
• Weight: 4.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.1" x 6.6" x 9.6"