Contents


Preface 3
Contents 11


PART VIII
SOCIAL, CULTURAL, AND KNOWLEDGE ADMINISTRATION OF THE FIVE STATES 14

CHAPTER 27
Status Systems and Social Integration 14

CHAPTER 28
A Comparative Study of Educational, Cultural, and Knowledge Administration 60

CHAPTER 29
A Comparative Study of Religious, Ritual, and Symbolic Administration 107

CHAPTER 30
A Comparative Study of Economic, Technological, and Production Administration 148


PART IX
INTERSTATE RELATIONS AND STATE ADMINISTRATION OF THE FIVE STATES 192

CHAPTER 31
War and Alliance among the Five States 192

CHAPTER 32
The Strategic Spaces of the Han River, the Nakdong River, Liaodong, and Manchuria 230

CHAPTER 33
The End of the Five-State Era and the Wars of Unification 269


PART X
AN INTEGRATED THEORY OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE CIVILIZATION OF THE FIVE STATES 310

CHAPTER 34
A Comparative Model of State Development in the Five-State Era 310

CHAPTER 35
The Core Structure of the Administrative Civilization of the Five-State Era 357

CHAPTER 36
The Five-State Era and the Historical Origins of Korean Public Administration 401

CHAPTER 37
A Comprehensive Evaluation of State and Administration in the Five-State Era 440

CHAPTER 38
The Seven Faces of the States of the Five-State Era: State, Ruling Ideology, Ruling Class and Coalition, Cohesion of Social Relations, Bureaucratic Apparatus and Legal Order, Governing Group–Regime–Government, and King–Ruler 501

CHAPTER 39
The Interaction of World-Systems, States, and Social Classes in the Five-State Era 565

CLOSING CHAPTER
The Five States and the Continuing History of Administrative Civilization 614
EPILOGUE 630

APPENDIX 1 A CHRONOLOGY OF MAJOR EVENTS IN THE FIVE-STATE ERA 640
APPENDIX 2 Comparative Tables of the State Systems of the Five-State Era 667
APPENDIX 3 Major Epigraphic and Wooden-Tablet Sources of the Five-State Era 701

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 733