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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. Excerpt from book: Section 3KOREA. The Peninsula of Korea is a temperate and hilly country, inhabited by a Mongolian people. It has long been, either nominally or really, tributary to China. The Koreans claim as their first King Ki-Tsze, who emigrated from China and founded a dynasty at Pyong-yang in B.c. 1122; but Chinese histories, even long after these early times, are silent as to any union of the separate states of the peninsula into a nation, while mention is frequently made of these separate states. The country, which has long been a battleground for both China and Japan, seems never, even from its earliest days, to have been out of a state of embroilment; if not being over-run by enemies from beyond its borders, its separate states have been at war with one another. In the eleventh century Wang- Kian united the whole peninsula into one country; but at the time of the fall of the Mongolian dynasty in China a revolution took place at Korea, and that family was deposed. In 1392 Li-tan captured thethrone, and founded the present dynasty of Tsi-tsien. About this time the Chinese imposed on the Koreans the use of their chronology and calendar. The annual presentation by the Chinese of their calendar is a mark of the tributary condition of the state receiving it. In the first half of the sixteenth century the Koreans were strong enough to invade Japan. In the end of the same century, however, the great Taiko with a strong force ravaged Korea, driving back the Chinese troops sent to assist the dependency. The Japanese destroyed the cities, imposed a tribute on the country, and retained the fort of Fusan-kai. When the Ming dynasty in China was tottering to its fall the Koreans supported it, and in 1637 they were beaten by the victorious Manchus, and a heavy tribute imposed upon them, to be paid annually. Since this date the Kor...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781443289009
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1443289000
  • Publisher Date: 07 Jul 2009
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 74


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