600 years of China-Korea relations
- Westad, Odd Arne
- The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. Cambridge (MSS), 2023
Koreans long saw China as a mentor and protector. Chinese culture heavily influenced Korea, whose first written language used Chinese characters, while Confucianism shaped the structure of Korean government. This deep, sometimes fraught, relationship has done more to shape the politics of the region than ...