Between Dreams and Reality: The Military Examination in Late Choson Korea, 1600-1894 (Harvard East Asian Monographs)

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2007
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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.

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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.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 275
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 01 Jun 2007
ISBN 10: 0674025024
ISBN 13: 9780674025028

Between Dreams and Reality: The Military Examination in Late Choson Korea, 1600-1894 (Harvard East Asian Monographs)

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