 | A Family of No Prominence: The Descendants of Pak Tŏkhwa and the Birth of Modern Korea Subjects: Pak family; Korea -- Genealogy; Social status -- Korea -- History; Korea -- History -- Choson dynasty 1392–1910; Korea -- History -- Japanese occupation 1910–1945; No detailed description available for "A Family of No Prominence". Eugene Y. Park is the Korea Foundation Associate Professor of History and Director of the James Joo-Jin Kim Program in Korean Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Between Dreams and Reality: The Military Examination in Late Chosŏn Korea, 1600-1984 (2007). |
