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Eugene Y. Park
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| #2586718 in Books | 2007-05-31 | 2007-06-30 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.16 x1.02 x6.45l,1.23 | File type: PDF | 273 pages||6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| Essential Reading for those interested in social history, Korean history, and the military's place in society|By John Lee|Stretching from one hundred years before Columbus discovered America all the way to the eve of World War One, the Korean Choson dynasty was the longest-lasting dynasty in East Asian history. Yet, historians have yet to provide satisfactory explanations for s|About the Author|?Eugene Y. Park is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine.
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 n...
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