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Author Etsuko Hae-Jin Kang critically examines the diplomatic and ideological relations between Japan and Korea from the15th century to the 18th century, which formed the basis for modern nationalism in these countries.
Synopsis
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.
Synopsis
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
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-298) and index.