Pages 185-210 – Owen Miller – ‘The Myŏnjujŏn- A Silk Merchants’ Guild in Late Chosŏn Korea’

This paper is part of a broader research project attempting to understand the role of commerce in Chosŏn-dynasty Korea, a project that will hopefully contribute something to our general understanding of the position of commerce in pre-capitalist societies. Commerce has clearly played an important role in human societies since long before the rise of capitalism. The anthropologist Eric Wolf pointed...