James B Palais: 1 book
Confucian Statecraft and Korean Institutions
Yu Hyongwon and the Late Choson Dynasty
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
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...
