The Rise of the Brokered State: Situating Administrative Expansion in Chosŏn Korea
(2019)
Journal Article
Lee, J. S. (2019). The Rise of the Brokered State: Situating Administrative Expansion in Chosŏn Korea. Seoul journal of Korean studies, 32(1), 81-108. https://doi.org/10.1353/seo.2019.0004
Between 1500 and 1800 CE, patterns of governance on the Korean Peninsula shifted toward a dynamic that I term the “rise of the brokered state.” While central political authority increasingly became entrenched in a small number of elite families resid... Read More about The Rise of the Brokered State: Situating Administrative Expansion in Chosŏn Korea.