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| | Regions Central Asia - IIAS Newsletter Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) |
 | | Kings and literati, who were chiefly fundamentalist Neo-Confucians, tried to steer the kingdom by the principles of Neo-Confucian political philosophy. |
 | | At that time, King Injo and his court tried to reconstruct the kingdom in the aftermath of about seven years of international war (1592-1598) in North East Asia between, on one side, Choso(breve)n and Ming China, and, on the other side, Japan which blitzkrieged Choso(breve)n. |
 | | In consequence, all the leadership, not to mention the king, and the people were supposed to observe the three years' Neo-Confucian system of funeral rites when their parents passed away. |
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