Hwang, Kyung Moon <br/><br/>
Beyond birth :  social status in the emergence of modern Korea / 
Kyung Moon Hwang 
 - Cambridge, Mass :  Distributed by Harvard University Press,  2004. 
 - 481 p. ;  23 cm. 
 - Harvard East Asian monographs ;  243 .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index 
<br/><br/>1. Birth and bureaucracy -- 2. Opening the ranks: bureaucratic appointment Patterns, 1880-1930 -- 3. The chungin -- 4. The hyangni -- 5. The sool -- 6.  The Northerners -- 7. The muban 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0674016564 (cloth : alk. paper)  RM199.50 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Bureaucracy--History--Korea<br/>Social structure--History--Korea<br/>Social status--History--Korea
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Korea--History--Chos? dynasty, 1392-1910