Abstract

Over the last two years between 2016 and 2017, researchers in the Song-Liao-Jin-Yuan studies have greatly expanded the research scopes. They have dealt with not only the traditional research fields such as political and diplomatic history and socio-economic history but also the relatively new areas such as cultural history or history of Sino-Korean relations. This article mainly deals with the overall impression on the qualitative growth in the researches of the Song-Liao-Jin- Yuan studies. Lastly, I would like to mention two significant challenges to solve.BR Firstly, it is obvious that both the researchers and researches on the socio-economic history of the Song-Liao-Jin-Yuan studies have gradually declined since the early 2000s. Although it became conspicuous in the aftermath of obsolete socialism in the 1990s, it will be serious matter since a comprehensive understanding of the socio-economic history may become basis to carry out researches on various fields. Therefore, it is necessary to invigorate the field through finding a new detailed topic.BR Secondly, researches on the history of Sino-Korean relations also need to expand the range of the researches. The researchers will understand the relations between the Korean Dynasties and the Chinese ones more clearly if they see it from the broader perspective of the history of multilateral relations among the ancient East Asian regimes, which includes Kamakura Shogunate, Ryukyu Kingdom, and Tamra(Jeju). By doing so, for instance, we will find out the right answer to the problems that we could not have understood from the narrow perspective so far.

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