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Generals and Scholars : Military Rule in Medieval Korea / Edward Shultz.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2000]Copyright date: ©2000Description: 1 online resource (268 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780824821883
  • 9780824862633
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 952.9/01 21
LOC classification:
  • DS912.35 .S54 2000eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Introduction -- 1. The Military Coup -- 2 Myongjong's Reign -- 3 .The Ch'oe House Military Institutions -- 5 .Civil Structure and Personnel: Ch'oe Hang and Ch'oe U˘ i -- 6. Peasants and Lowborns -- 7. Buddhism under the Military -- 8. Land and Other Economic Issues -- 9. The Ch'oe Dilemma -- APPENDIXES -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
Summary: Generals and Scholars is the first work in English to examine fully military rule during the Koryo. Although it lasted for only a century, the period was one of dynamic change--a time of institutional development, social transformation, and the reassertion of the civil service examination and Confucian ideology coupled with the flowering of Son (Zen) Buddhism. (When confronted with fundamental matters of rule, however, Ch'oe leaders frequently opted for the status quo and in the end aligned with many traditional civil elites to preserve their power.) The traditional tension between civilians and the military was eased as both came to accept the primacy and necessity of civilian values. Koryo generals, unlike those in Japan, learned they could govern more readily by relying on civil leaders administering a strong central government than on a call to arms. Institutional innovations from this period survived well into the next and Son Buddhism continued to flourish throughout the country.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Introduction -- 1. The Military Coup -- 2 Myongjong's Reign -- 3 .The Ch'oe House Military Institutions -- 5 .Civil Structure and Personnel: Ch'oe Hang and Ch'oe U˘ i -- 6. Peasants and Lowborns -- 7. Buddhism under the Military -- 8. Land and Other Economic Issues -- 9. The Ch'oe Dilemma -- APPENDIXES -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

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Generals and Scholars is the first work in English to examine fully military rule during the Koryo. Although it lasted for only a century, the period was one of dynamic change--a time of institutional development, social transformation, and the reassertion of the civil service examination and Confucian ideology coupled with the flowering of Son (Zen) Buddhism. (When confronted with fundamental matters of rule, however, Ch'oe leaders frequently opted for the status quo and in the end aligned with many traditional civil elites to preserve their power.) The traditional tension between civilians and the military was eased as both came to accept the primacy and necessity of civilian values. Koryo generals, unlike those in Japan, learned they could govern more readily by relying on civil leaders administering a strong central government than on a call to arms. Institutional innovations from this period survived well into the next and Son Buddhism continued to flourish throughout the country.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)