Boundless Winds of Empire: Rhetoric and Ritual in Early Choson Diplomacy With Ming China - Couverture souple

Wang, Sixiang

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0231205473 ISBN 13 : 9780231205474

Editeur : Columbia University Press, 2023

Synopsis

Winner, 2025 James B. Palais Prize, Association for Asian Studies

Winner, 2024 UC Berkeley Hong Yung Lee Book Award, Center for Korean Studies at UC Berkeley

For more than two hundred years after its establishment in 1392, the Chosŏn dynasty of Korea enjoyed generally peaceful and stable relations with neighboring Ming China, which dwarfed it in size, population, and power. This remarkably long period of sustained peace was not an inevitable consequence of Chinese cultural and political ascendancy. In this book, Sixiang Wang demonstrates how Chosŏn political actors strategically deployed cultural practices, values, and narratives to carve out a place for Korea within the Ming imperial order.

Boundless Winds of Empire is a cultural history of diplomacy that traces Chosŏn's rhetorical and ritual engagement with China. Chosŏn drew on classical Chinese paradigms of statecraft, political legitimacy, and cultural achievement. It also paid regular tribute to the Ming court, where its envoys composed paeans to Ming imperial glory. Wang argues these acts were not straightforward affirmations of Ming domination; instead, they concealed a subtle and sophisticated strategy of diplomatic and cultural negotiation. He shows how Korea's rulers and diplomats inserted Chosŏn into the Ming Empire's legitimating strategies and established Korea as a stakeholder in a shared imperial tradition. Boundless Winds of Empire recasts a critical period of Sino-Korean relations through the Korean perspective, emphasizing Korean agency in the making of East Asian international relations.

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À propos de l?auteur

Sixiang Wang is assistant professor of Asian languages and cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Columbia University Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0231205473
• ISBN 13: 9780231205474
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 456
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Columbia University Press; https://cup.columbia.edu/; ; OFFICE OF THE GENERAL COUNSEL 412 LOW MEMORIAL LIBRARY 535 W. 116THSTR; NEW YORK; NY; 10027; Etats-Unis
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