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Centering the King of Chosŏn: Aspects of Korean Maritime Diplomacy, 1392–1592

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 March 2010

Kenneth R. Robinson
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In diplomatic settings, the King of Chosŏn Korea showed different faces to different people between 1392 and 1592. The monarch looked toward the Emperor of Ming China as a status inferior and acted as a status equal with rulers of Japan and Ryukyu. In a recasting of the Chinese precept that diplomacy should not be conducted with subjects, he sat upon the throne as status superior to Japanese and Ryukyuans who had been permitted or denied tributary relationships. And he was the “sovereign” before Japanese and Jurchen “subjects” upon whom he had bestowed nominal appointments to military posts. Each posture necessitated a complex of policies, regulations, rites, and practices, including concealment of the tributary from imperial view.

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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 59 , Issue 1 , February 2000 , pp. 109 - 125
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000

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