[KS] Chinese "control" over Choson

[Kirk Larsen]

In response to Don Baker’s query “Has anybody seen evidence of that same need to hide Korea's diplomatic relations with Japanese after 1600?”
 
This does not directly answer Don’s question, but it is clear that the Chosôn court sought to hide many aspects of its dealings with Catholicism in Korea in the 19th century. This included, among other things, sending a carefully edited version of Hwang Sa-yong’s famous “silk letter” in a report to Beijing . 
 
See 
 
Hara, Takemichi. 1998. Korea, China, and Western Barbarians: Diplomacy in Early Nineteenth-Century Korea. Modern Asian Studies 32 (2): 389-430.
 
for details 
 
Cheers, 

Kirk W. Larsen 
Korea Foundation Assistant Professor of 
History and International Affairs 
Co-Director, Undergraduate Program in International Affairs 
1957 E Street 503H 
The George Washington University 
Washington DC, 20052 
(202) 994-5253
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