

<BODY><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: AGaramond">In response to Don Baker’s query “</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: AGaramond; mso-fareast-font-family: Gulim; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-bidi-font-family: Gulim">Has anybody seen evidence of that same need to hide </SPAN><?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:country-region><st1:place><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: AGaramond; mso-fareast-font-family: Gulim; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-bidi-font-family: Gulim">Korea</SPAN></st1:place></st1:country-region><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: AGaramond; mso-fareast-font-family: Gulim; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-bidi-font-family: Gulim">'s diplomatic relations with Japanese after 1600?”<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>

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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: AGaramond; mso-fareast-font-family: Gulim; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-bidi-font-family: Gulim">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 </SPAN><st1:country-region><st1:place><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: AGaramond; mso-fareast-font-family: Gulim; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-bidi-font-family: Gulim">Korea</SPAN></st1:place></st1:country-region><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: AGaramond; mso-fareast-font-family: Gulim; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-bidi-font-family: Gulim"> in the 19<SUP>th</SUP> century. This included, among other things, sending a carefully edited version of </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: AGaramond">Hwang Sa-yong’s famous “silk letter” in a report to </SPAN><st1:City><st1:place><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: AGaramond">Beijing</SPAN></st1:place>

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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: AGaramond">Hara, Takemichi. 1998. </SPAN><st1:country-region><st1:place><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: AGaramond">Korea</SPAN></st1:place></st1:country-region><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: AGaramond">, </SPAN><st1:country-region><st1:place><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: AGaramond">China</SPAN></st1:place></st1:country-region><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: AGaramond">, and Western Barbarians: Diplomacy in Early Nineteenth-Century </SPAN><st1:country-region><st1:place><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: AGaramond">Korea</SPAN></st1:place></st1:country-region><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: AGaramond">. <I>Modern Asian Studies</I> 32 (2): 389-430.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>

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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: AGaramond"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>Cheers, <BR><BR>Kirk W. Larsen <BR>Korea Foundation Assistant Professor of <BR>History and International Affairs <BR>Co-Director, Undergraduate Program in International Affairs <BR>1957 E Street 503H <BR>The George Washington University <BR>Washington DC, 20052 <BR>(202) 994-5253<BR><BR></BODY>