Abstract

Over the past decades, scholars have excavated the Mongol Empire’s far-reaching legacy in shaping the world’s subsequent history. A new historiographical development has argued that the early Ming rulers aimed to succeed the Mongol world empire by incorporating neighboring polities through rituals. Korean elites allegedly corresponded to the Ming advances by internalizing the Sinocentric worldview and Korea’s predetermined position as a vassal of the world empire in China. This article critically examines this position by first raising the following two points. First, arguments for the Ming

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