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This book is an economic history of the Chos n dynasty (1392-1910). The Chos n dynasty is not only known for managing the northeastern regions of Asia for 500 years as the exemplars of Confucianism, their kingdom was also one of the greatest so-called "agricultural states under Heaven." The Chos n dynasty has been briefly explored academically by Western scholars, but their findings have some limitations. The period of 1400-1600, in particular, has been too poorly reported on in the English language to gain the attention of the Western knowledge society. This book aims to fill the gaps in the existing research and will be of interest to economists, scholars of Korean history, agriculturists, and ecologists.
List of contents
1. Old Wealth Horse to New Wealth Ox.- 2. Settled Population.- 3. What Climatic Change during the First Global Age Tells Us.- 4. Emerging Seed Science in CFT.- 5. Drought - Enduring and Leguminous plants science.- 6. The Organization of CFT.- 7. Conclusion.- 8. Preface.- 9. Preparing the Seed Grain.- 10. Plowing the Soil.- 11. Cultivating Hemp.- 12. Cultivating Rice (Supplement: Upland Rice).- 13. Cultivating Proso and Foxtail Millet.- 14. Cultivating Barnyard Grass.- 15. Cultivating Soybeans, Red Beans, and Mung Beans.- 16. Cultivating Barley and Wheat.- 17. Cultivating Sesame.- 18. Cultivating Buckwheat.- 19. Cultivating Cotton.
About the author
Seong Ho Jun is a Professor at the Academy of Korean Studies. He received a BA, MA and Ph.D. in Economics from SungKyunKwan University, South Korea. He conducted his postdoctoral research at The University of Oxford, United Kingdom. He has taught at Goethe University Frankfurt Germany and has published in 12 peer reviewed English journals indexed in A&HCI, SSCI SCOPUS in the field of accounting history, economic history, including
The Journal of Economic History,
Research in Economic History,
Financial History Review,
Economics and Human Biology, and has also co-authored
Kaes¿ng Double Entry Bookkeeping (KDEB) in a Global Perspective Volumes I and
II (2016) with James B. Lewis and
The Sagae Songdo Chibubeob for Practical Use and Self-Study Double Entry Accounting in the Medieval Far East (2018) with Byung T. Ro and Key-sook Jung.
Summary
This book is an economic history of the Chosŏn dynasty (1392-1910). The Chosŏn dynasty is not only known for managing the northeastern regions of Asia for 500 years as the exemplars of Confucianism, their kingdom was also one of the greatest so-called “agricultural states under Heaven.” The Chosŏn dynasty has been briefly explored academically by Western scholars, but their findings have some limitations. The period of 1400-1600, in particular, has been too poorly reported on in the English language to gain the attention of the Western knowledge society. This book aims to fill the gaps in the existing research and will be of interest to economists, scholars of Korean history, agriculturists, and ecologists.
