LEADER 03486nam 2200613 450 001 9910787896503321 005 20230126212200.0 010 $a0-8047-9086-8 024 7 $a10.1515/9780804790864 035 $a(CKB)2670000000529462 035 $a(EBL)1645283 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001132175 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12411025 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001132175 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11147937 035 $a(PQKB)10794412 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000886872 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1645283 035 $a(DE-B1597)564829 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780804790864 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1645283 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10843147 035 $a(OCoLC)871860536 035 $a(OCoLC)1178770162 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000529462 100 $a20130819h20142014 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA family of no prominence $ethe descendants of Pak Tokhwa and the birth of modern Korea /$fEugene Y. Park 210 1$aStanford, California :$cStanford University Press,$d[2014] 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (262 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8047-8876-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aFrom the mists of time -- Living with status ambiguity : guardsmen, merchants, and illegitimate children -- As a middle people : military officers, jurists, and calligraphers -- Long live the Korean Empire : hopes, fulfillment, and frustrations -- Fortunes that rose and fell with Imperial Korea : the Tanyang U in-laws -- Vignettes : colonial subjects of imperial Japan. 330 $aKoreans are known for their keen interest in genealogy and inherited ancestral status. Yet today's ordinary Korean would be hard pressed to explain the whereabouts of ancestors before the twentieth century. With A Family of No Prominence, Eugene Y. Park gives us a remarkable account of a nonelite family, that of Pak T?khwa and his descendants (which includes the author). Spanning the early modern and modern eras over three centuries (1590?1945), this narrative of one family of the chungin class of people is a landmark achievement. What we do know of the chungin, or "middle people," of Korea largely comes from profiles of wealthy, influential men, frequently cited as collaborators with Japanese imperialists, who went on to constitute the post-1945 South Korean elite. This book highlights many rank-and-file chungin who, despite being better educated than most Koreans, struggled to survive. We follow Pak T?khwa's descendants as they make inroads into politics, business, and culture. Yet many members' refusal to link their family histories and surnames to royal forebears, as most other Koreans did, sets them apart, and facilitates for readers a meaningful discussion of identity, modernity, colonialism, memory, and historical agency. 606 $aSocial status$zKorea$xHistory 607 $aKorea$vGenealogy 607 $aKorea$xHistory$yChoso?n dynasty, 1392-1910 607 $aKorea$xHistory$yJapanese occupation, 1910-1945 615 0$aSocial status$xHistory. 676 $a929.209519 700 $aPark$b Eugene Y.$01567610 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787896503321 996 $aA family of no prominence$93839105 997 $aUNINA