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E-book Ginseng and Borderland

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In 1745, the Shengjing military governor (jiangjun), Daldangga, wrote to the Qian-long emperor (r. 1736–95) to propose building a guard post at the mouth of the Yalu (K. Amnok) River. The suggested place was Mangniushao, a sandbank located where the confluence of two tributaries of the Yalu River, the Caohe and the Aihe, flowed into the mainstream of the Yalu. These tributaries, both originating in Changbaishan (K. Paektusan), also led to the Halmin and Elmin areas, the biggest ginseng preserve in Shengjing. Daldangga’s predecessors had tried to protect the ginseng mountains (shenshan) in their jurisdiction by building outposts and sta-tioning soldiers on the land routes around the area, but the waterways were poorly guarded and open to illegal poachers. Eager to improve the security situation in the Shengjing area and to tighten the management of ginseng production in par-ticular, Daldangga emphasized the necessity of a guard post on the waterways; without one, people could easily build boats, transport food grains, and approach the prohibited ginseng preserves. He was concerned that, without a guard post, it was impossible to prevent, among other things, illegal ginseng poaching. Trained naval forces in Lüshun could be mobilized and stationed at Mangniushao, added Daldangga, and for their living they could cultivate the empty land available near the Yalu River.1However, it was not his emperor or his rival officials in Beijing who severely objected to the military governor’s idea; it was the Chos?n court that urged the Qianlong emperor to reconsider the proposal and eventually succeeded in per-suading him to drop the plan for an outpost on the Yalu River. Even though Qing officials confirmed that the sandbank was located within Qing territory, the Chos?n repeatedly insisted that the two countries had long prohibited any settlement or cultivation in the vast area, as wide as a hundred li, between the Willow Palisade and the Yalu River. The Chos?n king, Y?ngjo (r. 1724–76), lauded the ban as “a well-designed plan by the virtue of the imperial court [K. hwangjo]” to prevent contacts between Qing and Chos?n people and thus eliminate any chance of trouble with the “small country” (K. sobang). Rejecting the Shengjing military governor’s proposal for a new guard post to protect the ginseng mountains, the Qianlong emperor finally decided to acquiesce to the Chos?n king’s insistence that the land near the Yalu River should remain empty and not be opened to soldiers or civilians. The eighteenth-century Qing emperor agreed to keep his territory north of the Yalu River in the state that the Chos?n king preferred.

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951.9 KIM g

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USA : University of California Press., 2017

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244 hlm

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English

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9780520295995

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951.9

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History of Korea

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