Beyond Birth: Social Status in the Emergence of Modern Korea by Kyung Moon Hwang

Beyond Birth: Social Status in the Emergence of Modern Korea

Kyung Moon Hwang

481 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

informative medium-paced
Powered by AI (Beta)
Loading...

Description

The social structure of contemporary Korea contains strong echoes of the hierarchical principles and patterns governing stratification in the Choson dynasty (1392-1910): namely, birth and one's position in the bureaucracy. At the beginning of Kore...

Read more

Community Reviews

Loading...

Content Warnings

Loading...