@article{ART002740275},
author={Peter Yun},
title={The Multistate System in Pre-Mongol East Asia},
journal={Journal of Manchurian Studies},
issn={1738-3668},
year={2005},
number={3},
pages={43-59}
TY - JOUR
AU - Peter Yun
TI - The Multistate System in Pre-Mongol East Asia
JO - Journal of Manchurian Studies
PY - 2005
VL - null
IS - 3
PB - The Manchurian Studies Association
SP - 43
EP - 59
SN - 1738-3668
AB - Before the Mongol Yuan period, Northeast Asian interstate relations were governed by a treaty system based on the principle of reciprocity among a number of legitimate and equal regimes. While the Manchurian conquest dynasties confronted the Chinese Song states, Korean Koryo and Tangut Xia states functioned as balancers in the Northeast Asian military balance of power. Each state asserted its own ethnocentric world-view in the Northeast Asian multistate system, and the diplomatic formalities of investitures and tributes were not signs of submission, but peace and accommodation. Chinese historians have employed the tribute system to reinforce their territorial and historiographical claims over non-Han ethnic groups. However, the official theory of interstate relations with the Chinese state at the center was nothing more than a myth perpetuated to justify the rule of Chinese rulers to their subjects. The Chinese attempt to impose contemporary political boundaries on the past is a case of blatant presentism that reads history backwards by applying today’s social and political standards and conditions to the past. Today’s boundaries of China are of recent creation, and the term zhongguo (Central Kingdom) must be taken as a subjective and geopolitical desig-nation.
KW - Tribute System;investiture;tribute;Kory5;Khitan Liao;Jurchen Jin;Mongol Yuan;Chinese Song;Tangut Xia;presentism.
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Peter Yun. (2005). The Multistate System in Pre-Mongol East Asia. Journal of Manchurian Studies, 3, 43-59.
Peter Yun. 2005, "The Multistate System in Pre-Mongol East Asia", Journal of Manchurian Studies, no.3, pp.43-59.
Peter Yun "The Multistate System in Pre-Mongol East Asia" Journal of Manchurian Studies 3 pp.43-59 (2005) : 43.
Peter Yun. The Multistate System in Pre-Mongol East Asia. 2005; 3 : 43-59.
Peter Yun. "The Multistate System in Pre-Mongol East Asia" Journal of Manchurian Studies no.3(2005) : 43-59.
Peter Yun. The Multistate System in Pre-Mongol East Asia. Journal of Manchurian Studies, 3, 43-59.
Peter Yun. The Multistate System in Pre-Mongol East Asia. Journal of Manchurian Studies. 2005; 3 43-59.
Peter Yun. The Multistate System in Pre-Mongol East Asia. 2005; 3 : 43-59.
Peter Yun. "The Multistate System in Pre-Mongol East Asia" Journal of Manchurian Studies no.3(2005) : 43-59.
