Diplomacy and Ideology in Japanese-Korean Relations: From the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Century

by E. Kang

Overview

During the premodern period, Japan had significant political, economic and cultural relations with Korea. This book purports that this period, from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century, was the formative stage of the East Asian diplomacy and ideology which laid the foundations for foreign relations between these two countries in the modern period. The book also investigates how Japan's and Korea's political and diplomatic ideologies emerged as a nascent form of nationalism which scholars have not previously clarified.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333699393
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	09/30/1997
Edition description:	1997
Pages:	312
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Etsuko Hae-Jin Kang

Table of Contents

List of Charts - Acknowledgements - Abbreviations used in the Footnotes and Explanatory Note - Introduction - Muromachi Foreign Policy with Korea: Diplomatic Rapprochement in Premodern East Asia - The Kyorin Diplomacy of Early Choson - Hideyoshi's Diplomacy and the Diplomatic Rupture with Korea - Political Culture in Early Modern Japan and Korea - The Tokugawa Taikun Diplomacy and Korea - Korea's Sadae-Kyorin Diplomacy with the Rise of Ch'ing China - The Failure of Reforms in the Eighteenth Century - Conclusion - Notes - Appendices - Bibliography - Index

Editorial Reviews

Breaks through the widespread assumption of Japanese seclusion policy and Korean diplomatic and intellectual dependence on China in early modern history to examine the diplomatic relations and political ideologies of the two countries. Argues that the period studied was a formative stage that formed the basis for foreign relations in the modern period; shows that they maintained a dichotomy of perceptions operating within the Chinese world order; and finds in the ideologies nascent forms of nationalism in both countries. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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