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Transnational Reading of Remaking of East Asian Global Order in Late 14th Century Koryŏ, Hobaldo(胡拔都 Qubatu)’s Invasion in King Wu’s era, and Yi Sŏnggye

  • The Review of Korean History
  • 2022, (147), pp.41-86
  • DOI : 10.31218/TRKH.2022.9.147.41
  • Publisher : The Historical Society Of Korea
  • Research Area : Humanities > History
  • Received : August 18, 2022
  • Accepted : September 6, 2022
  • Published : September 30, 2022

Daham Chong 1

1상명대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

Hobaldo(胡拔都 Qubatu)'s invasion on Koryŏ northern frontier in King Wu’s reign and Yi Sŏnggye’s victory against it have merely been understood so far as a simple battle between Jurchen aggressor Hobaldo(胡拔都) and patriotic Koryŏ general Yi Sŏnggye. However, in doing so, much more contingent and much more complicated historical context around this historical event, has been almost unexplained. Going beyond the existing nationalist perspective, this paper seeks to rethink Hobaldo(胡拔都)'s invasion in King Wu’s reign and Yi Sŏnggye’s engagement to defeat it, by putting them together with Ming court’s demand to return formal Yuan Liaodong residents previous Koryŏ king Kongmin’s expeditionary forces including Yi Sŏnggye’s warriors have taken from Yuan Tongnyŏng Commandery, Ming Dingliaowei commandery(定遼衛)’s instigation of Liaodong Jurchen forces such as Hobaldo(胡拔都) against Koryŏ, Koryŏ King Wu’s need to be recognized as the legitimate successor of King Kongmin and “tributary” by Ming imperial authority, and Yi Sŏnggye’s tricky position as the powerful warlord of Koryŏ frontier with hybridity his family has obtained by crossing the borders among Koryŏ, Mongol, and Jurchen societies.

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