Abstract: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 residing in the capital region, the reach of the Chosŏn state continued to grow through local institutions such as clerks and military garrisons. Likewise, avenues of interaction between Seoul and the provinces broadened thanks to the social and organizational consolidation of local elites. Over time, the government was able to utilize a widening assemblage of bureaucratic administration and local cooperation to expand state management of resources such as grain and timber. Previous scholarship has often situated Chosŏn center-local dynamics within vectors of conflict, stagnation, or progress. My analysis reframes Chosŏn administrative expansion as an interactive process through which a wide array of local yangban, clerks, military officials, and monks became key intermediaries between the central government and the provinces, in turn forming the infrastructural contours of the Chosŏn state itself.

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经纪人国家的兴起：朝鲜朝鲜的行政扩张

摘要：在公元 1500 年到 1800 年之间，朝鲜半岛的治理模式转向了我称之为“中介国家崛起”的动态。虽然中央政治权力越来越多地在居住在首都地区的少数精英家庭中根深蒂固，但 Chosŏn 国家的影响力继续通过文职人员和军事驻军等地方机构扩大。同样，由于地方精英的社会和组织整合，首尔与各省之间的互动渠道拓宽了。随着时间的推移，政府能够利用不断扩大的官僚行政和地方合作的组合来扩大国家对粮食和木材等资源的管理。以前的学术研究经常将 Chosŏn 中心-地方动态置于冲突、停滞或进步的载体中。