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    ISBN
    9780674025028

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    Product Identifiers

    Publisher
    Harvard University, Asia Center
    ISBN-10
    0674025024
    ISBN-13
    9780674025028
    eBay Product ID (ePID)
    57032322

    Product Key Features

    Number of Pages
    276 Pages
    Publication Name
    Between Dreams and Reality : the Military Examination in Late Choson Korea, 1600-1894
    Language
    English
    Publication Year
    2007
    Subject
    Sociology / General, Military / General, Asia / Korea
    Type
    Textbook
    Author
    Eugene Y. Park
    Subject Area
    Social Science, History
    Series
    Harvard East Asian Monographs
    Format
    Hardcover

    Dimensions

    Item Height
    1 in
    Item Weight
    19.8 Oz
    Item Length
    9.3 in
    Item Width
    6.5 in

    Additional Product Features

    Intended Audience
    Scholarly & Professional
    LCCN
    2007-002975
    Dewey Edition
    22
    Series Volume Number
    281
    Illustrated
    Yes
    Dewey Decimal
    355.2/234
    Table Of Content
    List of Maps, Figures, and Tables List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. The Early Military Examination System 2. The Rise of a Military Aristocracy 3. Local Elites and the Military Examination 4. Yanghan Cohesiveness and the Choson Dynasty 5. Nonelites and the Military Examination Conclusion: The State and the Military Examination System Appendix A. Highest Achievements of Military Examination Passers from Elite Military Lines, 1592-1894 Appendix B. New Local Military Competitions from the Reigns of Sukchong through Yongjo, 1674-1776 Notes Works Cited Character List Index
    Synopsis
    Park argues that the mukwa --Korea's state military examination--was not only the primary means of recruiting aristocrats as new members of the military bureaucracy, but also a way for the ruling elite to partially satisfy the status aspirations of marginalized regional elites, secondary status groups, commoners, and manumitted slaves., From the mid-seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century, millions of Korean men from all walks of life trained in the arts of war to prepare not for actual combat but to sit for the state military examination ( mukwa ). Despite this widespread interest, only for a small minority did passing the test lead to appointment as a military official. Why, then, did so many men aspire to the mukwa ? Eugene Y. Park argues that the mukwa was not only the state's primary instrument for recruiting aristocrats as new members to the military bureaucracy but also a means by which the ruling elite of Seoul could partially satisfy the status aspirations of marginalized regional elites, secondary status groups, commoners, and manumitted slaves. Unlike the civil examination ( munkwa ), however, that assured successful examinees posts in the prestigious central bureaucracy, achievement in the mukwa did not enable them to gain political power or membership in the existing aristocracy. A wealth of empirical data and primary sources drives Park's study: a database of more than 32,000 military examination graduates; a range of new and underutilized documents such as court records, household registers, local gazetteers, private memoirs, examination rosters, and genealogies; and products of popular culture, such as p'ansori storytelling and vernacular fiction. Drawing on this extensive evidence, Park provides a comprehensive sociopolitical history of the mukwa system in late Choson Korea.
    LC Classification Number
    DS913.35

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