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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 2005

1 edition

informative medium-paced
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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...

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