Agriculture and Korean Economic History : Concise Farming Talk (Nongsa Chiksǒl)

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. 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 AetHCI, 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 Kaesŏng Double Entry Bookkeeping (KDEB) in a Global Perspective Volumes I and II 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 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. 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 Kaesŏng Double Entry Bookkeeping (KDEB) in a Global Perspective Volumes I and II 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 Front Matter ....Pages i-xix Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Old Wealth Horse to New Wealth Ox (Seong Ho Jun)....Pages 3-23 Choson’s Settled Population by King’s Reign (1392–1910) (Seong Ho Jun)....Pages 25-37 What Climatic Change During the First Global Age Tells Us (Seong Ho Jun)....Pages 39-42 Emerging Seed Science in CFT (Seong Ho Jun)....Pages 43-53 Drought: Enduring and Leguminous Plants Science (Seong Ho Jun)....Pages 55-66 The Organization of CFT (Seong Ho Jun)....Pages 67-71 Conclusion (Seong Ho Jun)....Pages 73-76 Front Matter ....Pages 77-77 Preface (Seong Ho Jun)....Pages 79-80 Preparing the Seeds (Seong Ho Jun)....Pages 81-82 Plowing the Soil (Seong Ho Jun)....Pages 83-83 Cultivating Hemp (Seong Ho Jun)....Pages 85-86 Cultivating Rice (Seong Ho Jun)....Pages 87-95 Cultivating Proso/Foxtail Millet (Seong Ho Jun)....Pages 97-99 Cultivating Barnyard Grass (Seong Ho Jun)....Pages 101-102 Cultivating Soybeans, Red Beans, and Mung Beans (Seong Ho Jun)....Pages 103-104 Cultivating Barley and Wheat (Seong Ho Jun)....Pages 105-106 Cultivating Sesame (Seong Ho Jun)....Pages 107-108 Cultivating Buckwheat (Seong Ho Jun)....Pages 109-110 Cultivating Cotton (Seong Ho Jun)....Pages 111-112 Back Matter ....Pages 113-215 The Choson 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 Choson dynasty has been briefly explored academically by Western scholars, but their findings have some limitations.