Confucian Statecraft and Korean Institutions
Palais, James B.![Confucian Statecraft and Korean Institutions](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/334/33460099/CHSBZCOP0333460099.jpg)
Seventeenth-century Korea was a country in crisis - successive invasions by Hideyoshi and the Manchus had rocked the Choson dynasty (1392-1910), which was already 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 ti...