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Beyond birth : social status in the emergence of modern Korea / Kyung Moon Hwang.
LIBRA DS913.2 .H84 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hwang, Kyung Moon.
- Series:
- Harvard East Asian monographs ; 243.
- Harvard East Asian monographs ; 243
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social status.
- History.
- Bureaucracy.
- Korea--History--Chosŏn dynasty, 1392-1910.
- Korea.
- Bureaucracy--Korea--History.
- Social structure--Korea--History.
- Social structure.
- Social status--Korea--History.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 481 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2004.
- Contents:
- 1. Birth and bureaucracy: social stratification in the Chosŏn era
- 2. Opening the ranks: appointment to the bureaucratic elite, 1880-1930
- 3. The chungin
- 4. The hyangni
- 5. The sŏŏl
- 6. The Northerners
- 7. The muban.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [429]-456) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0674016564
- OCLC:
- 56729874
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