| Description |
1 online resource (262 pages) |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments; Illustrations; Conventions; Prologue; 1. From the Mists of Time; 2. Living with Status Ambiguity: Guardsmen, Merchants, and Illegitimate Children; 3. As a Middle People: Military Officers, Jurists, and Calligraphers; 4. Long Live the Korean Empire: Hopes, Fulfillment, and Frustrations; 5. Fortunes that Rose and Fell with Imperial Korea: The Tayang U In-Laws; 6. Vignettes: Colonial Subjects of Imperial Japan; Epilogue; Character List; Notes; Works Cited; Index |
| Summary |
Koreans are known for their keen interest in genealogy and inherited ancestral status. Yet today's ordinary Korean would be hard pressed to explain the whereabouts of ancestors before the twentieth century. With A Family of No Prominence, Eugene Y. Park gives us a remarkable account of a nonelite family, that of Pak Tokhwa and his descendants (which includes the author). Spanning the early modern and modern eras over three centuries (1590-1945), this narrative of one family of the chungin class of people is a landmark achievement. What we do know of the chungin |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-226) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Pak family.
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| SUBJECT |
Pak family fast |
| Subject |
Social status -- Korea -- History
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REFERENCE -- Genealogy & Heraldry.
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HISTORY -- Asia -- Korea.
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Social status
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| SUBJECT |
Korea -- History -- Chosŏn dynasty, 1392-1910.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85073030
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Korea -- History -- Japanese occupation, 1910-1945.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85073038
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| Subject |
Korea
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780804790864 |
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0804790868 |
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