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      • Boundless Winds of Empire: Rhetoric and Ritual in Early Chosŏn Diplomacy with Ming China
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      • The King’s Conveyance: The Ritual Dispute of 1488 and the Unwritten Constitution of Early Modern Korean-Chinese Diplomacy
      • Chosŏn’s Office of Interpreters: The Apt Response and the Knowledge Culture of Diplomacy
      • Compiling diplomacy: record-keeping and archival practices in Chosŏn Korea
      • What Tang Taizong Could Not Do: The Koryŏ Surrender of 1259 and the Imperial Tradition
      • The Story of the Eastern Chamber: Dilemmas of Vernacular Language and Political Authority in Eighteenth-Century Chosŏn
      • The Filial Daughter of Kwaksan: Finger Severing, Confucian Virtues, and Envoy Poetry in Early Chosŏn
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      • Korea and Early Modernity
      • Commemoration in Early Chosŏn Political Culture: How Kim Sisŭp Became a Loyal Official
      • Korean Eunuchs as Imperial Envoys
      • Loyalty, History, and Empire: Qian Qianyi and His Korean Biographies
      • The Sounds of Our Country: Interpreters, Linguistic Knowledge and the Politics of Language in Early Chosŏn Korea (1392–1592)
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      • Chapter 2
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      • Chapter 4
      • Chapter 5
      • Chapter 6
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    • UCLA Korean History and Culture Digital Museum
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    • Korea-Vietnam Working Group: Connections and Comparisons in Humanities scholarship
      • Korea and Vietnam before the Twentieth Century: Comparisons and Connections
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      • History of Korea, 1260 to 1876 (K180B)
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Sixiang Wang 王思翔

Historian, East Asia and Korea

Author: Sixiang Wang

Compiling diplomacy: record-keeping and archival practices in Chosŏn Korea

Posted on December 14, 2018April 1, 2025 by Sixiang Wang

2019 “Compiling diplomacy: record-keeping and archival practices in Chosŏn Korea,” Journal of Korean Studies (2019) 24 (2): 255–287 The Chosŏn… Read more Compiling diplomacy: record-keeping and archival practices in Chosŏn Korea

Korean Eunuchs as Imperial Envoys: Relations with Chosŏn through the Zhengde Reign

Posted on December 14, 2018November 22, 2022 by Sixiang Wang

2019 “Korean Eunuchs as Imperial Envoys: Relations with Chosŏn through the Zhengde Reign.” Chapter 23 in The Ming World, edited… Read more Korean Eunuchs as Imperial Envoys: Relations with Chosŏn through the Zhengde Reign

What Tang Taizong Could Not Do: The Koryŏ Surrender of 1259 and the Imperial Tradition

Posted on October 31, 2018April 1, 2025 by Sixiang Wang

2018 “What Tang Taizong Could Not Do: The Koryŏ Surrender of 1259 and the Imperial Tradition” T’oung Pao 104:3-4 (October). Abstract… Read more What Tang Taizong Could Not Do: The Koryŏ Surrender of 1259 and the Imperial Tradition

[Institute for Korean Studies, Indiana University] Wagging the Imperial Dog: Negotiated Autonomy and the Diplomacy of Universal Empire in Chosŏn Korea (October 19, 2018)

Posted on October 1, 2018April 1, 2025 by Sixiang Wang

Loyalty, History, and Empire: Qian Qianyi and His Korean Biographies

Posted on June 2, 2017May 23, 2022 by Sixiang Wang

2018 “Loyalty, History, and Empire: Qian Qianyi and His Korean Biographies” to be included in Representing Lives in East Asia,… Read more Loyalty, History, and Empire: Qian Qianyi and His Korean Biographies

The Story of the Eastern Chamber: Dilemmas of Vernacular Language and Political Authority in Eighteenth-Century Chosŏn

Posted on June 2, 2017April 1, 2025 by Sixiang Wang

“The Story of the Eastern Chamber: Dilemmas of Vernacular Language and Political Authority in Eighteenth-Century Chosŏn” Journal of Korean Studies… Read more The Story of the Eastern Chamber: Dilemmas of Vernacular Language and Political Authority in Eighteenth-Century Chosŏn

Korea Questions S1 | Ep 3: Do Unicorns exist in North Korea? | Sixiang Wang (September 7, 2016)

Posted on September 7, 2016April 1, 2025 by Sixiang Wang

The Sounds of Our Country: Interpreters, Linguistic Knowledge and the Politics of Language in Early Chosŏn Korea (1392–1592)

Posted on August 31, 2014March 7, 2022 by Sixiang Wang

2014 “The Sounds of Our Country: Interpreters, Linguistic Knowledge and the Politics of Language in Early Chosŏn Korea (1392–1592).” In… Read more The Sounds of Our Country: Interpreters, Linguistic Knowledge and the Politics of Language in Early Chosŏn Korea (1392–1592)

The Filial Daughter of Kwaksan: Finger Severing, Confucian Virtues, and Envoy Poetry in Early Chosŏn

Posted on December 12, 2012November 22, 2022 by Sixiang Wang

2012 “The Filial Daughter of Kwaksan- Finger Severing, Confucian Virtues, and Envoy Poetry in Early Chosŏn.” Seoul Journal of Korean… Read more The Filial Daughter of Kwaksan: Finger Severing, Confucian Virtues, and Envoy Poetry in Early Chosŏn

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