Tradition, Treaties, and Trade: Qing Imperialism and Choson Korea, 1850-1910

Associate Professor of History Kirk W Larsen
Harvard University Press
9780674028074
0-674-02807-4

Relations between the Chosaeon and Qing states are often cited as the prime example of the operation of the traditional Chinese tribute system. In contrast, this work contends that the motivations, tactics.

read more…

and successes (and failures) of the late Qing Empire in Chosaeon Korea mirrored those of other 19th-century imperialists."