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An Ever-contested Poem: The Classic of Poetry's “Hanyi” and the Sino-Korean History Debate

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 May 2012

Jae-Hoon Shim
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Abstract

Since 2003, the dispute over the history of the ancient kingdom of Koguryŏ (37 bce, trad.-668 ce), located in Manchuria and northern Korea, has been one of the hottest issues between China and Korea. The debate seems to have fueled a new nationalistic or Sinocentric historiography of the ancient Chinese northeast. A ninth century BCE poem called “Hanyi” in the Classic of Poetry [Shijing] has been the cause of a far older history dispute. Whereas Chinese scholars have generally understood Han as a Zhou feudal state ruled by a Ji-surnamed scion of the Zhou Dynasty (1045–256 bce), most Korean scholars have linked the polity with Old Chosŏn (n.d.-108 bce), the earliest known state in Korean history. However, by comparing the “Hanyi” with several bronze inscriptions with similar contents, this study seeks to re-read the “Hanyi” from a perspective that transcends the dichotomy of Chinese history versus Korean history.

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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 71 , Issue 2 , May 2012 , pp. 475 - 497
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2012

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