Reconstructing Ancient Korean History: The Formation of Korean-Ness in the Shadow of History

249 Pages·2016·34.24 MB·English

by  Stella Xu

Reconstructing Ancient Korean History

Reconstructing Ancient
Korean History
The Formation of Korean-ness
in the Shadow of History
Stella Xu

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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
NotesonRomanization xi
Maps xiii
Introduction 1
Notes 11
1 FromOtherstoBarbarians:TheConceptualizationand
EvolutionofYi夷 15
TheFormationofChineseViewsontheOthers 16
ManagingFrontiers,EmbracingOthers:Xiongnu,
Nanyue,andChaoxianinHanForeignPolicy 19
TheInterdependentFormationofChinese-nessand
Korean-ness 31
Notes 38
2 NegotiatingthePast,ReinterpretingAncientHistory:
LegitimacyintheLineageofAncientKoreanHistory 45
TheThreeChosŏnandThreeKingdomsFrameworkin
theKoryǒPeriod(918–1392) 46
StabilityaftertheDynasticTransitionfromtheEarlyto
Mid-ChosǒnPeriod(1392-1600) 58
RethinkingtheSino-centricWorldOrderand
RepositioningChosǒn—LaterChosǒnPeriod(1600-1905) 68
Notes 83
3 AncientHistoryReinvented:AnotherBattlegroundfor
NationalPrestigeandPoliticalLegitimacy 89
ColonialLegacy:JapaneseScholarshipontheAncient
HistoryofKorea(seventeenthcentury-1945) 90

KoreanHistoriographyfromtheLateChosǒntoColonial
Period(1900-1945) 96
Post-1945:StudiesonKoreanAncientHistoryintheSouth 106
UnresolvedIssuesThatStillMatter 112

Notes 126
4 FromaMarxistUniversalHistorytoanUltranationalist
Approach:StudiesonAncientHistoryinNorthKorea 137
FlourishingPeriodinthe1950s-1960s 139
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RelativeDormancyandReorientationinthe1970s–1980s 150
TurningtoaNewP’yǒngyang-CenteredKoreanHistory 151
TheInternationalandInter-KoreaRelationshipinHistory
Studies 156
Notes 161
5 IntheNameofHistory:LayingClaimtotheHistorical
SovereigntyofManchuria(NortheastChina) 165
ManchuriainthePre-nineteenthCentury 166
ResearchonManchuriasincetheNineteenthCentury 169
ClimaxofControversy:DisputeontheHistoryofKoguryŏ 180
ClashofHistoricalViews 184
Notes 187
Conclusion:LivingwiththeLegacyofthePast 195
Notes 205
References 209
PrimarySources 209
SecondaryWorks 209
Index 221
AbouttheAuthor 233