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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: Rethinking the tribute system: Korean states and northeast Asian interstate relations, 600-1600 Abstract: Traditional Chinese dynasties viewed their interactions with foreign people in terms of the tribute system. Although the Chinese side always represented the relationship as its suzerainty over other states, the actual relations between China and its neighbors encompassed a wide range of political relationships from total subjugation to virtual equality. No single framework or generalization such as the tribute system can explain patterns of Northeast Asian foreign relations for two millennia. There have been recent studies re-examining the tribute system, but they have focused primarily on relations between China and Central Asian or Manchurian entities. Any comprehensive reassessment of the Fairbankian model of the tribute system and its applicability to the full historical range of interstate relations in East Asia must take into account the case of Korea, the so-called "model tributary state." Scholars often trace traditional Korea-China tributary relations back to the fourth century and assume that Korea-China relations persisted unchanged until the nineteenth century. However, it was the Choson-Ming relations that gave rise to a notion of the Korean state as the model tributary in the Chinese world order. Choson was an exception in its adherence to the ideals of the tribute system, but the historically unique Choson-Ming relations have been ahistorically taken as typical and representative of all Korea-China relations throughout history. |
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