Ruling Ideology and Marginal Subjects: Ming Loyalism and Foreign Lineages in Late Choson Korea
- Authors
- Bohnet, Adam
- Issue Date
- 2011
- Publisher
- BRILL ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS
- Keywords
- Choson; Korea; Qing Empire; submitting-foreigner; subjecthood; Neo-Confucianism; vernacularization; Ming-Qing transition; ideology; ethnicity; migration; Ming Loyalism
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF EARLY MODERN HISTORY, v.15, no.6, pp.477 - 505
- Indexed
- SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- JOURNAL OF EARLY MODERN HISTORY
- Volume
- 15
- Number
- 6
- Start Page
- 477
- End Page
- 505
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/115007
- DOI
- 10.1163/157006511X604013
- ISSN
- 1385-3783
- Abstract
- Numerous Ming Chinese took refuge in Choson Korea during the early seventeenth century. Despite the supposed sinocentrism of Chosos elites, refugees from China were treated as belonging to the category of submitting-foreigner (hyanghwain), a protected but distinctly humble social status that had been used primarily as a tool for settling Japanese and Jurchen from Choson's frontiers. Beginning in the mid-eighteenth century, however, the Choson court considered it incongruous to include Ming Chinese descendants in that category. Chinese lineages were thus distinguished from other submitting-foreigners and reclassified according to the considerably more prestigious category of imperial subjects. This paper explores this change, seeing it as part of a trend in the Qing Empire and indeed in Eurasia as a whole in which identity and subjecthood became increasingly bureaucratized, and loyalties treated as absolute.
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