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A Family of No Prominence: The Descendants of Pak Tŏkhwa and the Birth of Modern Korea

By Eugene Y. Park

Book information

Publisher
Stanford University Press
Year
2014
ISBN
9780804790864
DOI
10.1515/9780804790864
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3062202 bytes)
Pages
264\261
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-23 12:34:52

Description

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.

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