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Between Dreams and Reality: The Military Examination in Late Choson Korea, 1600-1894
Eugene Y. Park
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Hardback. From the mid-17th to the mid-19th Century, millions of Korean men trained in the arts of war to prepare not for actual combat but to sit for the state military examination (mukwa). This book provides a comprehensive socio-political history of the mukwa system. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 275 pages, 2 maps, 7 line illustrations, 5 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPK; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; HBTB; JFSC; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 166 x 237 x 26. Weight in Grams: 558.
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center United States
Number of pages
275
Condition
New
Series
Harvard East Asian Monographs
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780674025028
SKU
V9780674025028
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About Eugene Y. Park
Eugene Y. Park is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine.
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