Category: Nineteenth-century Ching-Chosŏn (淸-朝鮮) relations

In January 1882 in his brush-talk (筆談) with Li Hongzhang, Kim Yunsik (金允植) described the Ching authorities as of 上國 in his response to Li’s question about whether Chosŏn had already provided for measures to learn mining from the Japanese. He answered that the Japanese did not yet suggest it, and this lowly state (獘邦,… Continue reading An Analysis of Owen N. Denny’s political pamphlet, in refutation of it_part 2

Owen Nickerson Denny, foreign advisor to King Kojong (高宗, 1852-1919), published in 1888 in Shanghai a booklet titled China and Korea.[1] This work offers a useful glimpse into how an American advisor to the King perceived the relations between the Ching and Chosŏn that might have felt peculiar enough even for such a high-ranking foreigner… Continue reading An Analysis of Owen N. Denny’s political pamphlet, in refutation of it_part 1