Revisiting the Transition of the Goryeo-Mongol Relationship around 1260: based on a letter of the Goryeo King Wang Jeon

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Revisiting the Transition of the Goryeo-Mongol Relationship around 1260: based on a letter of the Goryeo King Wang Jeon

Abstract: Confrontations between the submission required by the Mongol empire and the expectation of the Goryeo to continue the Investiture-tributary system冊封-朝貢體制, which had formulated its relationship with Tang, Song, Liao and Jin in the past five hundred years, led to more than forty years war between the Mongol and the Goryeo. A historical transition happened around the enthronement of Qubilai in 1260. The terms, ideas, and other elements of the Investiture-tributary system was introduced into the foreign-affair-related ideology and policies of the Mongol when dealing with the Goryeo. The Letter to Scholar Zhang與張學士書, written by Kim Gu金坵 on the behalf of the Goryeo king Wang Jeon 王倎, provides a new perspective for understanding this transition. It was the interactions between Wang Jeon and the pro-Qubilai persons in North China during Wang Jeon’s mission to the Mongol that induced Wang Jeon to turn to Qubilai after the death of Mongke in 1259. Thanks to the active promotion by the Confucian scholar-ministers in Qubilai’s court, Wang Jeon was escorted back to the Goryeo and enthroned. Also with the mediation of the Confucian scholar-ministers, the Wang Hee王僖 mission in 1260 became the real turning point of the Goryeo-Mongol relationship. Conflicts around the back-to-land出陸 issue had been mitigated, and the Mongol had further clarified its cherishing懷柔 policies towards the Goryeo. It was the Confucian scholar-ministers who had introduced elements of the Investiture-tributary system into new Goryeo-Mongol/Yuan relations. For Qubilai, however, the new status of the Goryeo as an Eastern branch東藩 didn’t suggest a new framework for dealing with other regimes, but was a preferential treatment individually conferred under the political structure of the Mongol empire since Čingγis Qan.