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Remaking the Chinese Empire: Manchu-Korean Relations, 1616–1911 Paperback – March 15, 2023
by Yuanchong Wang (Author)
Remaking the Chinese Empire examines China's development from an empire into a modern state through the lens of Sino-Korean political relations during the Qing period. Incorporating Korea into the historical narrative of the Chinese empire, it demonstrates that the Manchu regime used its relations with Chosŏn Korea to establish, legitimize, and consolidate its identity as the civilized center of the world, as a cosmopolitan empire, and as a modern sovereign state.
For the Manchu regime and for the Chosŏn Dynasty, the relationship was one of mutual dependence, central to building and maintaining political legitimacy. Yuanchong Wang illuminates how this relationship served as the very model for China's foreign relations. Ultimately, this precipitated contests, conflicts, and compromises among empires and states in East Asia, Inner Asia, and Southeast Asia – in particular, in the nineteenth century when international law reached the Chinese world.
By adopting a long-term and cross-border perspective on high politics at the empire's core and periphery, Wang revises our understanding of the rise and transformation of the last imperial dynasty of China. His work reveals new insights on the clashes between China's foreign relations system and its Western counterpart, imperialism and colonialism in the Chinese world, and the formation of modern sovereign states in East Asia. Most significantly, Remaking the Chinese Empire breaks free of the established, national history-oriented paradigm, establishing a new paradigm through which to observe and analyze the Korean impact on the Qing Dynasty.
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302 pages
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Publisher
Cornell University Press
Publication date
March 15, 2023
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Deftly drawing his evidences from Manchu, Korean, and Chinese sources, the author successfully presents a complicated picture of the "age-honored China and Korea relations." This is a must-read for historians of China and Korea as well as for anyone interested in international relations.― Choice
Yuanchong Wang's Remaking the Chinese Empire is an innovative exploration of Sino-Korean relations during the Chosŏn period.― Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture
This inspiring book takes us a step forward toward a more interactive, and less national-history-oriented, understanding of Qing-Chosŏn relations. Full of intriguing observations and thought-provoking syntheses, it joins Kenneth M. Swope and Seonmin Kim in revising the Sino-Korean relations in late imperial China, a perennial subject that attracts both specialists and general readers.― Asian Affairs
This book's ambition goes beyond an account of Sino-Korean relations in the early modern period. Remaking the Chinese Empire is arguably the most comprehensive and sophisticated study on the Qing-Chosŏn relationship by far.― The Journal of Chinese Studies
The first full-length English-language exploration of the entirety of Qing-Choson relations, Remaking the Chinese Empire will be required reading for anyone interested in Qing or Choson history or in East Asian foreign relations or international relations more broadly. Drawing on a rich and varied base of Chinese, Manchu, Korean, English, Japanese, and other sources and boldly sketching new ways of conceptualizing East Asian foreign relations. The book will be an indispensable part of any conversation about these issues.― The Journal of Asian Studies
A major contribution to Sino-Korean history. Wang's writing is clear and engaging, much appreciated when dealing with a topic that is so easily bogged down with fusty and confusing reference to vassals, enfeoffment, tribute missions, and the like. It is essential reading for anyone interested in Qing history and East Asian diplomacy.― American Historical Review
Yuanchong Wang's Remaking the Chinese Empire offers a helpful analytical framework. Wang shows us in great detail how the geopolitical developments of the late nineteenth century severely tested the foundation of the Zongfan infrastructure.― Saksaha
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In Remaking the Chinese Empire, Wang shows how the tributary system actually functioned, providing details from travel accounts of the Chosŏn missions to Qing, and vice versa. Drawing deftly on sources in Manchu, Korean, and Chinese, he complicates our picture of the Qing as an Inner Asian/Manchu empire, a part of which included China proper.-- Steven Miles, Associate Professor of History, Washington University in St. Louis
About the Author
Yuanchong Wang is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Delaware.
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Publisher : Cornell University Press (March 15, 2023)
Language : English
Paperback : 302 pages
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Print length
302 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Publication date
March 15, 2023
Editorial Reviews
Review
Deftly drawing his evidences from Manchu, Korean, and Chinese sources, the author successfully presents a complicated picture of the "age-honored China and Korea relations." This is a must-read for historians of China and Korea as well as for anyone interested in international relations.― Choice
Yuanchong Wang's Remaking the Chinese Empire is an innovative exploration of Sino-Korean relations during the Chosŏn period.― Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture
This inspiring book takes us a step forward toward a more interactive, and less national-history-oriented, understanding of Qing-Chosŏn relations. Full of intriguing observations and thought-provoking syntheses, it joins Kenneth M. Swope and Seonmin Kim in revising the Sino-Korean relations in late imperial China, a perennial subject that attracts both specialists and general readers.― Asian Affairs
This book's ambition goes beyond an account of Sino-Korean relations in the early modern period. Remaking the Chinese Empire is arguably the most comprehensive and sophisticated study on the Qing-Chosŏn relationship by far.― The Journal of Chinese Studies
The first full-length English-language exploration of the entirety of Qing-Choson relations, Remaking the Chinese Empire will be required reading for anyone interested in Qing or Choson history or in East Asian foreign relations or international relations more broadly. Drawing on a rich and varied base of Chinese, Manchu, Korean, English, Japanese, and other sources and boldly sketching new ways of conceptualizing East Asian foreign relations. The book will be an indispensable part of any conversation about these issues.― The Journal of Asian Studies
A major contribution to Sino-Korean history. Wang's writing is clear and engaging, much appreciated when dealing with a topic that is so easily bogged down with fusty and confusing reference to vassals, enfeoffment, tribute missions, and the like. It is essential reading for anyone interested in Qing history and East Asian diplomacy.― American Historical Review
Yuanchong Wang's Remaking the Chinese Empire offers a helpful analytical framework. Wang shows us in great detail how the geopolitical developments of the late nineteenth century severely tested the foundation of the Zongfan infrastructure.― Saksaha
Review
In Remaking the Chinese Empire, Wang shows how the tributary system actually functioned, providing details from travel accounts of the Chosŏn missions to Qing, and vice versa. Drawing deftly on sources in Manchu, Korean, and Chinese, he complicates our picture of the Qing as an Inner Asian/Manchu empire, a part of which included China proper.-- Steven Miles, Associate Professor of History, Washington University in St. Louis
About the Author
Yuanchong Wang is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Delaware.
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Publisher : Cornell University Press (March 15, 2023)
Language : English
Paperback : 302 pages
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