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Organizing Japanese and Jurchens in Tribute Systems in Early Chosòn Korea

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 January 2016

Kenneth R. Robinson
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Abstract

In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries the Chosòn Korea government designed and utilized hierarchical tribute systems for managing interactions, in particular, trade, with Japanese and Jurchen elites. Korean officials separated maritime and overland contacts, divided the contacts further into carefully delineated reception grades and diplomatic statuses, and designed detailed procedures for interaction. More specifically, diplomatic status determined the regulations by which the court provided reception and then trade to a contact.

Keywords

tribute systemreception gradestradepiracydiplomatic statusBoard of Ritesnominal military posts

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