Abstract
It has become a truism in Korean history that the founding of the Choson dynasty in 1392 represented the victory of a new scholarofficial (sinhung sadaebu) class that rose in opposition to the old aristocracy during the late Koryo period. This proposition, first articulated in the post1945 era by such historians as Yi Sangbaek,1 has become a central tenet of a teleological view of Korean history as a series of progressive changes, driven by the rise of successive new social forces and leading ultimately to commercial and industrial development.2 This progressionist interpretation has become a virtual orthodoxy in South Korean historiography.
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