Boundless Winds of Empire

Winner, 2025 James B. Palais Prize, Association for Asian Studies Winner, 2024 UC Berkeley Hong Yung Lee Book Award, Center for Korean Studies at UC Berkeley For more than two hundred years after its establishment in 1392, the Chosŏn dynasty of Korea enjoyed generally peaceful and stable relations with neighboring Ming China, which dwarfed it in size, population, and power. This remarkably long period of sustained peace was not an inevitable consequence of Chinese cultural and political ascendan