From an award-winning historian, a concise overview of the deep and longstanding ties
between China and the Koreas, providing an essential foundation for understanding East …

" Turning toward Edification discusses foreigners in Korea from before the founding of
Chosŏn in 1392 until the mid-nineteenth century. Although it has been common to describe …

This series is dedicated to books that focus on humanistic studies of East Asia before the
mid-nineteenth century in fields including literature and cultural and social history, as well as …

This article examines the ontological complexity of interpolity orders with a focus on
peripheral polities in the Qing order. Existing multiculturalist studies of the Qing order …

This essay explores how basic computer programming and data visualization provides new
tools to understand the respective development of rhetorical education and historical …

East Asian policy transfer and diffusion is conceived as following a “flying geese” model but
transformations in the region challenged this hierarchical leader‐follower relationship …

This article focuses on Chosŏn's informal diplomacy with the Qing dynasty that guided
Chosŏn Korea's diplomatic engagement with Japan in the 1870s. The Chosŏn–Qing literary …

As a social institution, a border simultaneously divides and connects. When thinking about
state borders, or borderlands, scholars tend to view them as either linear or zonal spaces …

Recent scholarship highlights the role of commercial credit, often backed by the power of the
state, in creating conditions of subordination in the expansion of European empires. Less …

Abstract Henry Collbran and Harry Bostwick were the most successful American
businessmen in Korea in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. While they are …