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  title info:
    title: Empire and righteous nation
    sub title: 600 years of China-Korea relations
  name:
    name part: Westad, Odd Arne
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 205 pages ; 22 cm.
  abstract: In a concise, trenchant overview, Odd Arne Westad explores the cultural and political relationship between China and the Koreas over the past 600 years. Koreans long saw China as a mentor. The first form of written Korean employed Chinese characters and remained in administrative use until the twentieth century. Confucianism, especially Neo-Confucian reasoning about the state and its role in promoting a virtuous society, was central to the construction of the Korean government in the fourteenth century. These shared Confucian principles were expressed in fraternal terms, with China the older brother and Korea the younger. During the Ming Dynasty, mentor became protector, as Korea declared itself a vassal of China in hopes of escaping ruin at the hands of the Mongols. But the friendship eventually frayed with the encroachment of Western powers in the nineteenth century. Koreans began to reassess their position, especially as Qing China seemed no longer willing or able to stand up for Korea against either the Western powers or the rising military threat from Meiji Japan. The Sino-Korean relationship underwent further change over the next century as imperialism, nationalism, revolution and war refashioned states and peoples throughout Asia. Westad describes the disastrous impact of the Korean War on international relations in the region and considers Sino-Korean interactions today, especially the thorny question of the reunification of the Korean peninsula. Illuminating both the ties and the tensions that have characterized the China-Korea relationship, Empire and Righteous Nation provides a valuable foundation for understanding a critical geopolitical dynamic.
  table of contents: Introduction: A history of crucial importance -- China and the Chosŏn State: the making of Sino-Korean relations, 1392-1866 -- The internationalization of East Asia: China, Korea, and the world, 1866-1992 -- China and Korea today: the US-China relationship and the fate of the two Koreas -- Conclusion: What can we learn from history about China-Korea relations?
  note: Odd Arne Westad.
  note: "Edwin O. Reischauer lectures."
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-cc---
    geographic code: a-kr---
  subject:
    geographic: China
    topic: Relations
    geographic: Korea
  subject:
    geographic: Korea
    topic: Relations
    geographic: China
  classification: DS740.5.K6 W46 2021
  classification: 303.48/2510519
  identifier: 9780674238213
  identifier: 0674238214
  identifier: 2020018584
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 200821
    record change date: 20210422111544.0
    record identifier: in00004405569