"Turning toward Edification discusses foreigners in Korea from before the founding of Chos???on in 1392 until the mid-nineteenth century. Although it has been common to describe Chos???on Korea as a monocultural and homogeneous state, Adam Bohnet reveals the considerable presence of foreigners and people of foreign ancestry in Chos???on Korea as well as the importance to the Chos???on monarchy of engagement with the outside world. These foreigners included Jurchens and Japanese from border polities that formed diplomatic ...
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"Turning toward Edification discusses foreigners in Korea from before the founding of Chos???on in 1392 until the mid-nineteenth century. Although it has been common to describe Chos???on Korea as a monocultural and homogeneous state, Adam Bohnet reveals the considerable presence of foreigners and people of foreign ancestry in Chos???on Korea as well as the importance to the Chos???on monarchy of engagement with the outside world. These foreigners included Jurchens and Japanese from border polities that formed diplomatic relations with Chos???on prior to 1592, Ming Chinese and Japanese deserters who settled in Chos???on during the Japanese invasion between 1592 and 1598, Chinese and Jurchen refugees who escaped the Manchu state that formed north of Korea during the early seventeenth century, and even Dutch castaways who arrived in Chos???on during the mid-1700s. Foreigners were administered by the Chos???on monarchy through the tax category of "submitting-foreigner" (hyanghwain). This term marked such foreigners as uncivilized outsiders coming to Chos???on to receive moral edification and they were granted Korean spouses, Korean surnames, land, agricultural tools, fishing boats, and protection from personal taxes. Originally the status was granted for a limited time, however, by the seventeenth century it had become hereditary. Beginning in the 1750s foreign descendants of Chinese origin were singled out and reclassified as imperial subjects (hwangjoin), giving them the right to participate in the palace-sponsored Ming Loyalist rituals. Bohnet argues that the evolution of their status cannot be explained by a Confucian or Sinocentric enthusiasm for China. The position of foreigners-Chinese or otherwise-in Chos???on society must be understood in terms of their location within Chos???on social hierarchies. During the early Chos???on, all foreigners were clearly located below the sajok aristocracy. This did not change even during the eighteenth century, when the increasingly bureaucratic state recategorized Ming migrants to better accord with the Chos???on state's official Ming Loyalism. These changes may be understood in relation to the development of bureaucratized identities in the Qing Empire and elsewhere in the world during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and as part of the vernacularization of elite ideologies that has been noted elsewhere in Eurasia"--
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