A Family of No Prominence: The Descendants of Pak Tŏkhwa and the Birth of Modern Korea - Hardcover
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Stanford University PressISBN-13:9780804788762ISBN-10:804788766UPC:9780804788762Book Category:Reference, HistoryBook Subcategory:Genealogy & Heraldry, Asia, Social HistoryBook Topic:KoreaSize:9.28 x 6.10 x 0.77 inchesWeight:1.0604Product ID:SCV3Z3E2T5
Making use of both documentary evidence and oral history, A Family of No Prominence addresses issues of identity, modernity, colonialism, memory, and historical agency through a multigenerational study of a hitherto unknown family, tracing their emergence in early modern Korea and the plight of their descendants in the modern era.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Stanford University PressISBN-13:9780804788762ISBN-10:804788766UPC:9780804788762Book Category:Reference, HistoryBook Subcategory:Genealogy & Heraldry, Asia, Social HistoryBook Topic:KoreaSize:9.28 x 6.10 x 0.77 inchesWeight:1.0604Product ID:SCV3Z3E2T5
Eugene Y. Park is the Korea Foundation Associate Professor of History and Director of the James Joo-Jin Kim Program in Korean Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Between Dreams and Reality: The Military Examination in Late Chosŏn Korea, 1600-1984 (2007).
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