UID:
almahu_9949863646402882
Format:
1 online resource (244 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780520968714
Content:
A free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Ginseng and Borderland explores the territorial boundaries and political relations between Qing China and Choson Korea during the period from the early seventeenth to the late nineteenth centuries. By examining a unique body of materials written in Chinese, Manchu, and Korean, and building on recent studies in New Qing History, Seonmin Kim adds new perspectives to current understandings of the remarkable transformation of the Manchu Qing dynasty (1636-1912) from a tribal state to a universal empire. This book discusses early Manchu history and explores the Qing Empire's policy of controlling Manchuria and Choson Korea. Kim also contributes to theKorean history of the Choson dynasty (1392-1910) by challenging conventional accounts that embrace a China-centered interpretation of the tributary relationship between the two polities, stressing instead the agency of Choson Korea in the formation of the Qing Empire. This study demonstrates how Koreans interpreted and employed this relationship in order to preserve the boundary--and peace--with the suzerain power. By focusing on the historical significance of the China-Korea boundary, this book defines the nature of the Qing Empire through the dynamics of contacts and conflicts under both the cultural and material frameworks of its tributary relationship with Choson Korea.
Note:
Cover -- Series page -- Half title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Illustrations And Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Note On Transcriptions And Conventions -- Note On Weights And Measures -- Introduction -- 1 From Frontier to Borderland -- 2 Making The Borderland -- 3 Managing the Borderland -- 4 Movement of People and Money -- 5 From Borderland to Border -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index -- Figures -- Figure 1. Ginseng. From Li Shizhen -- Figure 2. Hetu Ala and its surrounding area -- Figure 3. Nurhaci receiving the honorary title of Genggiyen Han of the Aisin Gurun in 1616 -- Figure 4. Changbaishan -- Figure 5. P'yesagundo (map of the Four Closed Counties), early nineteenth century -- Figure 6. Paektusan chǒnggyebi chido (map of the stele of Changbaishan), date unknown -- Figure 7. Willow Palisade -- Figure 8. The Fenghuangcheng gate, the Yalu River, and Ŭiju -- Figure 9. Sanhaegwan tongnasŏng (eastern rampart of Shanhaiguan), circa 1784 -- Figure 10. Choyangmun (Gate of Rising Sun), circa 1784 -- Figure 11. Chogong (tributary ritual), circa 1784 -- Figure 12. Changbaishan and the Tumen riverhead -- Maps -- Map 1. Qing Manchuria and the Korean peninsula. -- Map 2. The Jurchen-Chosŏn frontier. -- Map 3. The Qing-Chosŏn borderland. -- Map 4. The Chosŏn tributary embassy's travel route. -- Tables -- Table 1 The ginseng-gathering privileges of princes and aristocrats by rank. -- Table 2 The size of the p'alp'o trade. -- Table 3 Change in the number of ginseng permits from the 1760s to 1850s.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Kim, Seonmin Ginseng and Borderland Berkeley : University of California Press,c2017 ISBN 9780520295995
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
