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<div>Beyond Birth: Social Status in the Emergence of Modern Korea, Kyung Moon Hwang</div>
<div>Published by the Harvard University of Asia Center, 2004</div>
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<div>This book has an information on Choson's rank system that includes civil service and military, etc. A valuable perspective of analyzing the rank system you might find it insightful.</div>
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<div>Min Paek</div>
<div>Hamburg University, Germany</div>
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From: kimgoyret@yahoo.es<br>
To: koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws<br>
Sent: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 9:31 AM<br>
Subject: [KS] Rank system in Choson?<br>
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<div class=AOLPlainTextBody id=AOLMsgPart_0_86453a75-805e-4ae5-9fc4-9083034ff32c><PRE><TT>Greetings,
I'm looking for information regarding the rank system
used by Choson's civil service and military. Both
"Sources of Korean Tradition" and Samuel Hawley's "The
Imjin War" mention it several times, but they do not
explain it or list all the ranks (though SKT does
explain Silla's bone rank system, which makes Choson's
absence stranger).
Thank you all,
Jong-Won Kim
Montevideo, Uruguay
"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."
-Alfred Tennyson, "Ulysses"
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