[KS] Chinese side sources on China's Northeast Project

Andrew zatouichi at gmail.com
Thu Jan 10 18:05:50 EST 2013


Dear all,

Happy New Year!

Anyone who's looked in the history section of a Korean bookshop knows that
there have been a lot of publications (ranging in quality) on Old Joseon,
Goguryeo, Balhae etc explicitly arguing against assertions made through
China's Northeast Project.

But, I want to ask, does anyone know of any English (or Chinese) language
research supporting the Chinese argument?  Not necessarily supporting the
politics but ideally presenting the strongest objective arguments for
treating non-Han ethnic groups within Chinese historiography.

Whilst it is pretty clear that the various 'Eastern Barbarian' ethnic
groups (Xianbei, Goguryeo, Khitan, Jurchen etc) were rarely subservient to
Han Chinese (and oftentimes ruling over them!) that is not a reason to
reject their inclusion from modern Chinese historiography, even if they
were excluded from orthodox Chinese historiography, just as they were from
orthodox Korean historiography.  That is, just as Korea has been doing a
lot of "rediscovering" of its pseudo pan-Altaic continental heritage, why
shouldn't China do the same (given they administer much of the historical
territory in question)?  And is there any literature supporting this
argument?

Andrew Logie
(Helsinki)
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