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Taxes, the Local Elite, and the Rural Populace in the Chinju Uprising of 1862

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 October 2007

Sun Joo Kim
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This paper examines the causes and processes of a popular tax-resistance movement by adopting a multidimensional approach that considers dynamic rural power relations, popular responses to social and economic changes, and cultural practices that both united and divided rural communities. Popular rebellions in 1862 reflected not only the social and economic distress that the peasantry experienced in everyday life but also the inability of the dynastic structure to accommodate the social, political, and economic changes that were occurring in the nineteenth century. This work pays close attention to the particular historical and cultural context of 1862 Korea, such as various rural conditions and the workings of dynastic institutions at the local level, and discovers that different patterns of popular protest grew out of the competition, division, and conflict that had developed along class, social status, village community, and political lines.

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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 66 , Issue 4 , November 2007 , pp. 993 - 1027
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2007

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