A Family of No Prominence the Descendants of Pak Tokhwa and the Birth of Modern Korea Beteiligt
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 thei...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Stanford, California
Stanford University Press
2014, ©2014
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| Collection: | DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Illustrations
- Conventions
- Prologue
- 1. From the Mists of Time
- 2. Living with Status Ambiguity: Guardsmen, Merchants, and Illegitimate Children
- 3. As a Middle People: Military Officers, Jurists, and Calligraphers
- 4. Long Live the Korean Empire: Hopes, Fulfillment, and Frustrations
- 5. Fortunes that Rose and Fell with Imperial Korea: The Tayang U In-Laws
- 6. Vignettes: Colonial Subjects of Imperial Japan
- Epilogue
- Character List
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index