Korean Adoption and Inheritance

Korean Adoption and Inheritance
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Publisher : Cornell East Asia Series
Total Pages : 296
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Download or read book Korean Adoption and Inheritance written by Mark A. Peterson and published by Cornell East Asia Series. This book was released on 1996 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cases in Korean adoption and inheritance reveal steps in the transition called "Confucianization" that took place mostly in the seventeenth century. The transition from partible inheritance, equally divided between sons and daughters, to primogeniture; the attempt to use soja as heirs; the movement toward agnatic adoption as the way to provide an heir when there were no children, or when there were only daughters born into the household are all covered in numerous cases from the official history, from government records, and from private documents.


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