Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Confucian Statecraft in the Founding of Choson
2 The Disintegration of the Early Choson System to 1592
3 Post-Imjin Developments in Military Defense and the Economy
4 Remolding the Ruling Class through Education and Schools
5 New Schools: Conservative Restraints on Radicalism
6 Slavery: The Slow Path to Abolition
7 Land Reform: Compromises with the Well Field Model
8 Redistributing Wealth through Land Reform
9 Late Choson Land Reform Proposals
10 The Royal Division Model: Rotating Duty Soldiers and Support Taxpayers
11 The Debate over the Military Training Agency, 1651-82
12 The Search for Alternative Modes of Military Finance
13 Military Reorganization, Weapons, and Walls
14 The Military Service System, 1682-1870
15 The King and His Court
16 Reforming the Central Bureaucracy
17 Personnel Policy
18 Provincial and Local Administration
19 The Community Compact System (Hyangyak)
20 Yu Hyongwon's Community Compact Regulations
21 Tribute and the Taedong Reform
22 The Taedong Model for Official Salaries and Expenses
23 Copper Cash and the Monetary System
24 Yu Hyongwon's Analysis of Currency
25 A Cycle of Inflation and Deflation
26 Cash and Economic Change after 1731
Epilogue: The Complexities of Korean Confucian Statecraft
Notes
Glossary
List of Kings of the Choson Dynasty
List of Names
Bibliography
Index