Carnival of the Aliens. Korean Embassies in Edo-Period Art and Popular Culture

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Provincializing Empire: Ōmi Merchants in the Japanese Transpacific Diaspora

“…64. Esenbel 2003 Major English-language works include Toby 1984;Smits 1999;Kalland 1995;Hellyer 2009;Arch 2017;Rüegg 2021. On Hideyoshi's abortive invasion of the Korean peninsula, see Elisonas 1991;andWalker 2001, 31-35.…”

Luca Gabbiani, Pékin à l’ombre du Mandat Céleste. Vie quotidienne et gouvernement urbain sous la dynastie Qing (1644-1911)

“…Gabbiani draws such a consistent picture that it is not quite fair to complain of possible lacunae. Even so, I miss a stronger focus on la vie quotidienne, the craftsmen from Shaoxing mentioned by Cole, the Zhili and Shandong people, the influx from the fringes of the Chinese empire, the invasion by juren and jinshi candidates and their examiners every three years (I find the description by Rui Magone (2) very instructive), the members of "tribute missions" -would they perhaps have been received by the people in Beijing as Ronald P. Toby describes it for Edo in his article "Carnival of the Aliens: Korean Embassies in Edo-Period Art and Popular Culture," (3) which the diaries of members of Korean embassies seem to corroborate to a certain degree? -and last but not least, the ruling Manchus.…”