Under the Ancestors' Eyes: Kinship, Status, and Locality in Premodern Korea
(Book #378 in the Harvard East Asian Monographs Series)
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Under the Ancestors' Eyes presents a new approach to Korean social history by focusing on the origin and development of the indigenous descent group. Martina Deuchler maintains that the surprising continuity of the descent-group model gave the ruling elite cohesion and stability and enabled it to retain power from the early Silla (fifth century) to the late nineteenth century. This argument, underpinned by a fresh interpretation of the late-fourteenth-century...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0674504305
ISBN13:9780674504301
Release Date:November 2015
Publisher:Harvard University Press
Length:629 Pages
Weight:2.85 lbs.
Dimensions:1.7" x 6.8" x 10.1"
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