A Family of No Prominence: The Descendants of Pak Tŏkhwa and the Birth of Modern Korea - Hardcover

by Eugene Y. Park (Author)

Making use of both documentary evidence and oral history, A Family of No Prominence addresses issues of identity, modernity, colonialism, memory, and historical agency through a multigenerational study of a hitherto unknown family, tracing their emergence in early modern Korea and the plight of their descendants in the modern era.

Author Biography

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).