Korean Adoption and Inheritance

by Mark Peterson

The cases in Korean adoption and inheritance reveal steps in the transition called "Confucianization" that took place mostly in the seventeenth century. The transition from partible inheritance, equally divided between sons and daughters, to primogeniture; the attempt to use soja as heirs; the movement toward agnatic adoption as the way to provide an heir when there were no children, or when there were only daughters born into the household are...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1885445709
• ISBN13: 9781885445704
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher