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Rank system in Choson? [message #8897] Fri, 22 September 2006 12:31 Go to next message
Jong-Won Kim is currently offline  Jong-Won Kim
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Greetings,

I'm looking for information regarding the rank system
used by Choson's civil service and military. Both
"Sources of Korean Tradition" and Samuel Hawley's "The
Imjin War" mention it several times, but they do not
explain it or list all the ranks (though SKT does
explain Silla's bone rank system, which makes Choson's
absence stranger).

Thank you all,
Jong-Won Kim
Montevideo, Uruguay

"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."
-Alfred Tennyson, "Ulysses"

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Re: Rank system in Choson? [message #8898 is a reply to message #8897] Fri, 22 September 2006 12:44 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Frank Hoffmann is currently offline  Frank Hoffmann
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Hi !

Try the APPENDIX (pp. 559-568):
Kim Tai-Jin (ed. and transl.). _A Bibliographical Guide to
Traditional Korean Sources_. Seoul: Asiatic Research Center, Korea
University, 1976.
This "List of Government Offices and Posts" gives all the offices in
Hanja, transcription and English translation.

Frank


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Re: Rank system in Choson? [message #8899 is a reply to message #8897] Fri, 22 September 2006 14:12 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Hildi and S.W. Kang is currently offline  Hildi and S.W. Kang
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Two other sources, although, sadly, neither has English


Kim Sanggi. Koryô sidae-sa, 1985, p.864-949

O Hûi-bok. Ponggeon kwallyo kigu mit pyeoseul ireum p'yeollam, 1992

Hildi Kang
Berkeley

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> Greetings,
>
> I'm looking for information regarding the rank system
> used by Choson's civil service and military. Both
> "Sources of Korean Tradition" and Samuel Hawley's "The
> Imjin War" mention it several times, but they do not
> explain it or list all the ranks (though SKT does
> explain Silla's bone rank system, which makes Choson's
> absence stranger).
>
> Thank you all,
> Jong-Won Kim
> Montevideo, Uruguay
>
> "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."
> -Alfred Tennyson, "Ulysses"
>
> __________________________________________________
> Correo Yahoo!
> Espacio para todos tus mensajes, antivirus y antispam ¡gratis!
> Regístrate ya - http://correo.espanol.yahoo.com/
>
>


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Re: Rank system in Choson? [message #8900 is a reply to message #8897] Fri, 22 September 2006 15:32 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Richard McBride is currently offline  Richard McBride
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With respect to the rank system in Choson you may also wish to consult the
appendix to Ed Wagner's classic book on the literatri purges, which contains
an outline of ranks and positions in the Choson government.

Wagner, Edward Willett. The literati purges : political conflict in early Yi
Korea. Cambridge, Mass.: East Asian Research Center, distributed by Harvard
University Press, 1974. (ISBN: 0674536185)

Best
Richard McBride
Washington University in St. Louis

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Re: Rank system in Choson? [message #8901 is a reply to message #8897] Fri, 22 September 2006 16:32 Go to previous message
AEKYUNG84 is currently offline  AEKYUNG84
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Beyond Birth: Social Status in the Emergence of Modern Korea, Kyung Moon Hwang
Published by the Harvard University of Asia Center, 2004

This book has an information on Choson's rank system that includes civil service and military, etc. A valuable perspective of analyzing the rank system you might find it insightful.


Min Paek
Hamburg University, Germany


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Greetings,

I'm looking for information regarding the rank system
used by Choson's civil service and military. Both
"Sources of Korean Tradition" and Samuel Hawley's "The
Imjin War" mention it several times, but they do not
explain it or list all the ranks (though SKT does
explain Silla's bone rank system, which makes Choson's
absence stranger).

Thank you all,
Jong-Won Kim
Montevideo, Uruguay

"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."
-Alfred Tennyson, "Ulysses"

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