Beyond Birth: Social Status in the Emergence of Modern Korea (Harvard East Asian Monographs)

By Kyung Moon Hwang

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674016564
• ISBN13: 9780674016569
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 481 Pages
• Weight: 1.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.4" x 9.1"