Remaking the Chinese Empire : Manchu-Korean Relations, 1616-1911 / Yuanchong Wang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wang, Yuanchong, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political Science & Political History.

Qing China, Choson Korea, Zongfan, Chinese empire, imperialism, Manchu, Japan, international law, East Asia, Korea, China, nationalism, Sino-Korea, Qing dynasty, Inner Asia, Southeast Asia.

China--Foreign relations--1644-1912.

China.

Korea--Foreign relations--China.

Korea.

China--Foreign relations--Korea.

Local Subjects:

Political Science & Political History.

Qing China, Choson Korea, Zongfan, Chinese empire, imperialism, Manchu, Japan, international law, East Asia, Korea, China, nationalism, Sino-Korea, Qing dynasty, Inner Asia, Southeast Asia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 285 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Maps

Acknowledgments

Note on Romanization and Conventions

Chinese and Korean Reign Periods, 1600-1911

Introduction

Part I. KOWTOWING TO OUR GREAT EMPEROR

1. CONQUERING CHOSŎN: The Rise of the Manchu Regime as the Middle Kingdom, 1616-43

2. BARBARIANIZING CHOSŎN: The Chosŏn Model and the Chinese Empire, 1644-1761

3. JUSTIFYING THE CIVILIZED The Qing's Contacts with Chosŏn, Annam, and Britain, 1762-1861

Part II. SAVING OUR CHOSŎN

4 DEFINING CHOSŎN: Qing China's Depiction of Chosŏn's Status, 1862-76

5. SUPERVISING CHOSŎN: Qing China's Patriarchal Role in Chosŏn, 1877-84

6. LOSING CHOSŎN: The Rise of a Modern Chinese State, 1885-1911

Conclusion

Notes

Glossary of Chinese Characters

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

9781501770142

1501770144

9781501730511

1501730517

OCLC:

1041193639