Table Of ContentConfucian Reform in Chosŏn Korea
Pan’gye surok was written by the Korean scholar and social
critic Yu Hyŏngwŏn (1622–1673), who proposed to reform
the Chosŏn dynasty and realize an ideal Confucian society. It
was recognized as a leading work of political science by Yu’s
contemporaries and continues to be a key text in understanding
the intellectual culture of the late Chosŏn period.
Yu describes the problems of the political and social realities
of seventeenth-century Korea, reporting on his attempts to solve
these problems using a Confucian philosophical approach. In
doing so, he establishes most of the key terminology relating
to politics and society in Korea in the late Chosŏn period.
His writings were used as a model for reforms within Korea
over the following centuries, inspiring social pioneers such
as Yi Ik and Chŏng Yagyong. Pan’gye surok demonstrates
how Confucian thought spread outside China and how it was
modified to fit the situation on the Korean peninsula.
Providing both the first English translation of principal
parts of the Pan’gye surok text and the glossaries, annotations,
and research papers on the importance of the text, this four-
volume set is an essential resource for international scholars
of Korean and East Asian history.
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Confucian Reform
in Chosŏn Korea
Yu Hyŏngwŏn’s Pan’gye surok
(Volume II)
Edited by Woosung Bae
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Contents
List of Contributors vii
Translator’s Notes ix
About the Book xi
Pan’gye surok Book One: The Field System 1 1
TRANSLATED BY YOONJEONG SHIM
Clauses on the Distribution of Field and the Determination
of Taxes 1
Idle Talk 146
Index 209
Contributors
Woosung Bae, editor, is Professor in the Department of Korean
History at the University of Seoul, Seoul, South Korea, and
Visiting Scholar at Korea Institute, Harvard University
(January 2009 to January 2010). He is also the author of
Chosŏn and Chunghwa: The World and Civilization That
Chosŏn Dreamt and Imagined, Tolbegae, 2014.
Yoonjeong Shim, translator, has a Ph.D. in Korean history
and co-translated The Veritable Records of King Sejong
1 (Gwacheon, Gyeonggi: National Institute of Korean
History, 2016).
Kenneth R. Robinson, copy editor, is a former Senior
Associate Professor at International Christian University,
Tokyo, Japan (Division of Social Sciences). He has co-
translated with JaHyun Kim Haboush A Korean War
Captive in Japan, 1597–1600: The Writings of Kang Hang
(New York: Columbia University Press, 2013).
Translator’s Notes
· The standards and rules outlined in The Chicago Manual of
Style (16th edition) are to be followed.
· The spelling of Korean terms in English follows McCune-
Reischauer Romanization and the terms are marked with
“K.”
· The spelling of Chinese terms in English follows Chinese
Pinyin and the terms are marked with “C.”
· Yu Hyŏngwŏn’s original notes are marked with “【 】.”
· Yu Hyŏngwŏn’s detailed notes in the paragraphs inside
“【 】” are marked with “ [ ] .”
· The translation of Pan’gye surok includes materials such
as “Preface I,” “Preface II,” “Biographical Account of
Yu Hyŏngwŏn,” “Field System,” “Supplemental Pan’gye
surok,” “Postscript to Pan’gye surok,” and “Governance and
Civilization.”
· The translation of Pan’gye surok and Supplemental Pan’gye
surok is based on the photo-print of Pan’gye surok, which is
published by Dongguk-munhwasa in 1958, along with other
editions stored in the Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies
and in the National Library of Korea.
· The photographed images of Pan’gye surok is produced from
the original book of Pan’gye surok (想白古0 31-Y91b-v.1-13),
which is stored in the Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies.
· The photographed images of Supplemental Pan’gye surok is
produced from the original book of Pan’gye surok poyu (古
2700-35), which is stored in the National Library of Korea.
