Ginseng and Borderland

A free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit  www.luminosoa.org  to learn more.   Ginseng and Borderland explores the territorial boundaries and political relations between Qing China and Choson Korea during the period from the early seventeenth to the late nineteenth centuries. By examining a unique body of materials written in Chinese, Manchu, and Korean, and building on recent s