Pages 265-286 – Yunhee Kim – ‘Pro-Japanese Economic Alliance Theories during the Period of the Taehan Empire’

The Sino-Japanese War of 1894–5 brought about the official end of Korea’s status as a vassal of China. Thereafter, the Chosŏn government began increasingly to assert its independence from China. The abolition of the traditional yŏnho system (under which a year was dated by reference to the corresponding year of the reigning Chinese emperor) in favour of the kaeguk yŏnho system (which was based on ...