Between Dreams and Reality: The Military Examination in Late Chosŏn Korea, 1600-1894 by Eugene Y. Park

Between Dreams and Reality: The Military Examination in Late Chosŏn Korea, 1600-1894

Harvard East Asian Monographs (Hardcover)

Eugene Y. Park

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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 intere...

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