TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hwang,Kyung Moon
TI  - Beyond birth: social status in the emergence of modern Korea 
SN  - 0674016564 (cloth : alk. paper)
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass
PB  - Distributed by Harvard University Press
KW  - Bureaucracy
KW  - Korea
KW  - History
KW  - Social structure
KW  - Social status
KW  - Chos? dynasty, 1392-1910
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0421/2004018863.html
ER  -