Frontier Contact Between Choson Korea and Tokugawa Japan
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authorities
borderland studies
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cross-cultural interactions
East Asian maritime history
Edo Bakufu
embassy
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Gn Ae
harbor
hideyoshi
Hideyoshi Invasions
Ho Ld
house
House Master
Illicit Sexual Liaison
Illicit Sexual Relations
imjin
Imjin Waeran
invasions
Japan House
Japanese Connection
Korea Japan Relations
korean
Korean Authorities
Korean Embassy
Korean Ginseng
Korean Japanese frontier relations
Korean Merchants
Korean Women
merchants
Pe Rc
Permanent Residents
premodern diplomacy
Private Trade
pusan
Pusan Harbor
regional economic networks
Roh Tae Woo
Sm Al
social structures Korea Japan
Tea Reception
Tokugawa Bakufu
Tribute Trade
Product details
- ISBN 9780700713011
- Weight: 790g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 11 Sep 2003
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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East Asia from 1400 to 1850 was a vibrant web of connections, and the southern coast of the Korean peninsula participated in a maritime world that stretched to Southeast Asia and beyond. Within this world were Japanese pirates, traders, and fishermen. They brought things to the Korean peninsula and they took things away. The economic and demographic structures of Kyongsang Province had deep and wide connections with these Japanese traders. Social and political clashes revolving around the Japan House in Pusan reveal Korean mentalities towards the Japanese connection. This study seeks to define 'Korea' by examining its frontier with Japan. The guiding problems are the relations between structures and agents and the self-definitions reached by pre-modern Koreans in their interaction with the Japanese. Case studies range from demography to taxation to trade to politics to prostitution. The study draws on a wide base of primary sources for Korea and Japan and introduces the problems that animate modern scholarship in both countries. It offers a model approach for Korea's northern frontier with China and shows that the peninsula was and is a complex brocade of differing regions. The book will be of interest to anyone concerned with pre-1900 East Asia, Korea in particular, and especially Korea's relations with the outside world. Anyone interested in early-modern Japan and its external relations will also find it essential reading.
James B. Lewis is the Korea Foundation University Lecturer in Korean STudies, Director of the Korean Studies Programme and Fellow of Wolfson College, University of Oxford. His current projects include The Korin Teisei, an Eighteenth-century Japanese view of Korea; the Imjin Waeran: Problems and Perspectives; An Economic History of Korea, 1400-1930.
