TY - BOOK AU - Hwang,Kyung Moon TI - Beyond Birth: Social Status in the Emergence of Modern Korea T2 - Harvard East Asian Monographs SN - 9781684174072 AV - DS913.2 U1 - 305.5/12 23 PY - 2004/// CY - Boston PB - Harvard University Asia Center KW - Bureaucracy KW - Korea KW - History KW - Social structure N1 - Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Birth and Bureaucracy: Social Stratification in the Chosŏn Era -- Opening the Ranks: Appointment to the Bureaucratic Elite, 1880-1930 -- The Chungin -- The Hyangni -- The Sŏŏl -- The Northerners -- The Muban -- Secondary Status Groups and Korean Modernity -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Character List -- Index -- Harvard East Asian Monographs UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9781684174072 ER -