{"id":108,"date":"2017-06-02T06:58:06","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T06:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chosonhistory.org\/SixWang\/?p=108"},"modified":"2022-05-23T17:35:51","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T17:35:51","slug":"loyalty-history-and-empire-qian-qianyi-and-his-korean-biographies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chosonhistory.org\/SixWang\/loyalty-history-and-empire-qian-qianyi-and-his-korean-biographies\/","title":{"rendered":"Loyalty, History, and Empire: Qian Qianyi and His Korean Biographies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2018<\/strong> \u201cLoyalty, History, and Empire: Qian Qianyi and His Korean Biographies\u201d to be included in <em>Representing Lives in East Asia, China and Korea 1400\u20131900<\/em>, Cornell East Asia Series<\/p>\n<p>The life of Qian Qianyi \u9322\u8b19\u76ca (1582\u20131664) straddled the tumultuous Ming-Qing dynastic transition. Though a self-identified Ming loyalist, Qian did not, as some of his contemporaries did, die as a martyr. Instead, he honored the Ming\u2019s legacy through literary and historiographical projects. Many of his critics saw his literary commemoration as an attempt to make up for questionable loyalist credentials, permanently tarnished by his surrender to the Qing and his brief service as a Qing official. One of Qian\u2019s literary projects was the massive anthology of Ming poetry, the <em>Collected Poetry of the Successive Reigns<\/em> (<em>Liechao shiji<\/em>\u5217\u671d\u8a69\u96c6). In this compilation, Qian wrote short biographies of the poets he included. The compilation included not only the works of Ming scholars and officials, but also a significant number of pieces by Korean poets. Most of the Korean writers, however, did not receive biographical treatment. Among the exceptions were the Kory\u014f dynasty (918\u20131392) loyalists, Ch\u014fng Mongju \u912d\u5922\u5468, Yi Saek \u674e\u7a61, and Yi Sung\u2019in \u674e\u5d07\u4ec1. The inclusion of their biographies raises several questions. What motivated Qian Qianyi to include them? How did he understand, in particular, the martyrdom of the Kory\u014f loyalist Ch\u014fng Mongju, vis-\u00e0-vis his own position as a self-identified Ming loyalist? And finally, how did Qian gain access to biographical information about these figures in the first place? The answers to these questions reveal numerous intriguing parallels that revolve around several key issues. What emerges from these Korean loyalist biographies are issues of moral and political authority, the purpose of historical writing, and how Korea fit into late Ming and post Ming imaginations of empire. The biographies of these historical figures were closely coordinated texts, and resonated across space and time, spurring discussion of a wide range of issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2018 \u201cLoyalty, History, and Empire: Qian Qianyi and His Korean Biographies\u201d to be included in Representing Lives in East Asia,&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/chosonhistory.org\/SixWang\/loyalty-history-and-empire-qian-qianyi-and-his-korean-biographies\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Loyalty, History, and Empire: Qian Qianyi and His Korean Biographies<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-chapters","category-publications"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8Nhqs-1K","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":155,"url":"https:\/\/chosonhistory.org\/SixWang\/korean-eunuchs-as-imperial-envoys-relations-with-choson-through-the-zhengde-reign\/","url_meta":{"origin":108,"position":0},"title":"Korean Eunuchs as Imperial Envoys:  Relations with Chos\u014fn through the Zhengde Reign","author":"Sixiang Wang","date":"December 14, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"2019 \"Korean Eunuchs as Imperial Envoys: Relations with Chos\u014fn through the Zhengde Reign.\" Chapter 23 in The Ming World, edited by Kenneth Swope Introduction excerpt: The usual way to describe Ming relations with Korea is through the notion of the \u201ctributary system.\u201d The Ming emperor, with the moral and cultural\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Book Chapters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Book Chapters","link":"https:\/\/chosonhistory.org\/SixWang\/category\/publications\/book-chapters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":457,"url":"https:\/\/chosonhistory.org\/SixWang\/new-books-network-boundless-winds-of-empire-hosted-by-sarah-bramao-ramos-january-9-2025\/","url_meta":{"origin":108,"position":1},"title":"[New Books Network] Boundless Winds of Empire, hosted by Sarah Bramao-Ramos (January 9, 2025)","author":"Sixiang Wang","date":"January 9, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"https:\/\/newbooksnetwork.com\/boundless-winds-of-empire Summary The Chos\u014fn dynasty of Korea enjoyed generally peaceful and stable relations with Ming China, a relationship that was carefully cultivated and achieved only through the strategic deployment of cultural practices, values, and narratives by\u00a0Chos\u014fn political actors.\u00a0Boundless Winds of Empire: Rhetoric and Ritual in Early Chos\u014fn Diplomacy with Ming\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Lectures, Talks, and Interviews&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Lectures, Talks, and Interviews","link":"https:\/\/chosonhistory.org\/SixWang\/category\/public-lectures\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":290,"url":"https:\/\/chosonhistory.org\/SixWang\/boundless-winds-of-empire-rhetoric-and-ritual-in-early-choson-diplomacy-with-ming-china\/","url_meta":{"origin":108,"position":2},"title":"Boundless Winds of Empire: Rhetoric and Ritual in Early Chos\u014fn Diplomacy with Ming China","author":"Sixiang Wang","date":"November 21, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"2023. 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