Chosŏn Reconsidered
| Autor: | Adam Bohnet |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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| Zdroj: | Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review, vol 1, iss 31 Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review, Iss 31, Pp 205-215 (2019) |
| Popis: | Yuanchong Wang. Remaking the Chinese Empire: Manchu-Korean Relations, 1616–1911. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2018. 300 pp. Eugene Y. Park. A Genealogy of Dissent: The Progeny of Fallen Royals in Chosŏn Korea. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2018. 288 pp. Recent years have seen enormous growth in English-language scholarship on the Chosŏn period and greater attention to early modern Korea from scholars of Edo Japan and late imperial China. Chosŏn-dynasty studies in English have expanded from being a narrow and somewhat claustrophobic field with only a few big names to including many new voices. Some scholars have focused on themes that have received little or no attention in English, or even Korean. Others have attempted new and original approaches to well-discussed topics. The two works reviewed here—Remaking the Chinese Empire: Manchu-Korean Relations, 1616–1911 by Yuanchong Wang and A Genealogy of Dissent: The Progeny of Fallen Royals in Chosŏn Korea by Eugene Y. Park—are very different, with the former exploring diplomatic history and the latter social history, but both represent significant revisions of the earlier consensus. Together, they suggest a widening horizon of Chosŏn-dynasty studies in English.... |
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