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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814501203321

Autore

Duncan John B. <1945->

Titolo

The origins of the Choson dynasty / / John B. Duncan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Seattle ; ; London : , : University of Washington Press, , 2000

©2000

ISBN

0-295-80533-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 395 pages) : illustrations

Collana

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

Disciplina

951.9/02

Soggetti

Korea Politics and government 935-1392

Korea Politics and government 1392-1910

Korea Officials and employees History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Tables; List of Genealogical Charts; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 / The Koryo Political System; 2 / The Rise of a Central Bureaucratic Aristocracy; 3 / The Yangban in the Change of Dynasties; 4 / Institutional Crisis in the Late Koryo; 5 / Reform and Dynastic Change; 6 / The Ideology of Reform; 7 / Some Final Considerations; Notes; Korean Dynasties and Kings; Glossary of Korean, Chinese, and Japanese Terms; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

"Scholars have long held that Korea's Choson dynasty (1392-1910) was established by a new socioeconomic class of scholar-officials of local-landlord origins who overthrew the capital-based aristocracy of the Koryo dynasty (918-1392). The Origins of the Choson Dynasty refutes that view, showing that a key feature of the dynastic transition was continuity in the structure and composition of the central ruling class and arguing that the main force behind the establishment of the Choson was the need to revamp institutions to protect aristocratic interests. The change of dynasties thus was less a revolution than a culmination of a centuries-old effort to create a centralized bureaucratic polity."