Lina Nie | Before Kamikaze: Diplomatic Negotiations among the Mongols, Japan, and Korea before 1274 Bun'ei Campaign | Korea Institute

Lina Nie | Before Kamikaze: Diplomatic Negotiations among the Mongols, Japan, and Korea before 1274 Bun'ei Campaign | Korea Institute

Lina Nie | Before Kamikaze: Diplomatic Negotiations among the Mongols, Japan, and Korea before 1274 Bun'ei Campaign

The Mongol invasions of Japan (12/4 and 1281) are among the most widely studied events in thirteenth-century East Asian maritime history. Less attention, however, has been paid to the lengthy negotiations that took place prior to the first invasion and involved Khubilai Khan (1215-1294), his Chinese advisers, the Koryo king, the Kamakura shogunate, and the Japanese imperial court. 

Based on primary sources from the Mongols, Koreans, and Japanese, this presentation demonstrates that merely focusing on the invasions themselves is insufficient to describe their complexity. The diverse strategies that different regimes utilized in dealing with the Mongol Empire demonstrate new possibilities for interpreting the premodern Eurasia in ways that go beyond the conventional historical narrative, which treats Mongolian expansion as the overarching framework. Adopting a transrealm perspective contributes to moving beyond the national history's boundaries to study interconnections and variations in premodern East Asia.

Prof. Lina Nie (RSEA '18) 

Texas A&M University

Wednesday, April 1

1:15-2:30 PM

S030, CGIS-South