{"id":457,"date":"2025-01-09T10:27:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T18:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chosonhistory.org\/SixWang\/?p=457"},"modified":"2025-04-01T10:30:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T17:30:28","slug":"new-books-network-boundless-winds-of-empire-hosted-by-sarah-bramao-ramos-january-9-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chosonhistory.org\/SixWang\/new-books-network-boundless-winds-of-empire-hosted-by-sarah-bramao-ramos-january-9-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"[New Books Network] Boundless Winds of Empire, hosted by Sarah Bramao-Ramos (January 9, 2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newbooksnetwork.com\/boundless-winds-of-empire\">https:\/\/newbooksnetwork.com\/boundless-winds-of-empire<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Summary<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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&nbsp;Chos\u014fn political actors.&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/12343\/9780231205474\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Boundless Winds of Empire: Rhetoric and Ritual in Early Chos\u014fn Diplomacy with Ming China<\/a>&nbsp;<\/em>(Columbia UP 2023) explores this history, rethinking how we understand Sino-Korean relations.&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.alc.ucla.edu\/person\/sixiang-wang\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Boundless Winds of Empire\u00a0<\/em>is detailed, rich, and filled with a fascinating range of sources, including poetry, travelogues, epistolary writings, and literary anthologies.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.alc.ucla.edu\/person\/sixiang-wang\/\">Sixiang Wang<\/a>\u00a0deftly weaves together these sources, highlighting the key role envoys played in shaping diplomatic strategy, the agency of\u00a0Chos\u014fn officials, and the contested nature of the Ming empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>The 2024 winner of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ieas.berkeley.edu\/news\/cks-news-2024-winner-uc-berkeley-hong-yung-lee-book-award-korean-studies\">UC Berkeley Hong Yung Lee Book Award in Korean Studies<\/a>, this book should appeal to those interested in Chinese and Korean studies, international relations, premodern history, and anyone who has ever struggled to understand\u00a0political rhetoric (this book will show you what\u00a0<em>can\u00a0<\/em>be done if you take it seriously).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe frameBorder=\"0\" height=\"482\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/playlist.megaphone.fm\/?e=NBNK7489876243\"\nwidth=\"100%\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/chosonhistory.org\/SixWang\/new-books-network-boundless-winds-of-empire-hosted-by-sarah-bramao-ramos-january-9-2025\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[New Books Network] Boundless Winds of Empire, hosted by Sarah Bramao-Ramos (January 9, 2025)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public-lectures"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8Nhqs-7n","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":290,"url":"https:\/\/chosonhistory.org\/SixWang\/boundless-winds-of-empire-rhetoric-and-ritual-in-early-choson-diplomacy-with-ming-china\/","url_meta":{"origin":457,"position":0},"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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