The Gathering Storm Over Korea In the summer of 1894, tensions between Qing China and Meiji Japan reached a boiling […]
A Clash of Empires in Late 19th-Century Korea The so-called “Elder Pavilion Talks” of July 1894 were not genuine negotiations […]
The Tinderbox of Korea In the summer of 1894, Korea became the focal point of a geopolitical storm that would […]
The Chessboard of Empire in Late 19th Century Asia As the 19th century waned, Northeast Asia became a stage for […]
The Powder Keg of Joseon Korea In the summer of 1894, the Korean peninsula became the stage for a dangerous […]
The Powder Keg of East Asia In June 1894, a flurry of encoded telegraphs between Tianjin, Tokyo, and Korea’s Asan […]
The Tinderbox of Late 19th-Century Korea In the summer of 1894, the Korean Peninsula became the stage for a high-stakes […]
The Powder Keg of East Asia In June 1894, a routine diplomatic exchange between Qing China and Meiji Japan over […]
The Powder Keg of Joseon Korea In the spring of 1894, Korea’s Joseon Dynasty stood at a crossroads. The Donghak […]
A World in Flux: The Global Context of 1894 The spring of 1894 found East Asia perched on the edge […]
A Soldier’s Dilemma in Troubled Times Liu Yongfu, the famed Black Flag Army commander, sat frozen over an unfinished letter […]
A Crossroads of Empires: Nan’ao’s Geographic Significance Perched on the Tropic of Cancer where Fujian and Guangdong provinces meet, Nan’ao […]
The Donghak Uprising and Its Historical Context The late 19th century was a turbulent period in Korean history, marked by […]
A Statesman’s Birthday Amidst Rebellion On the fifth day of the lunar new year in 1894, Li Hongzhang, the towering […]
The Powder Keg of Late Joseon Korea In the twilight years of Korea’s Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910), a series of peasant […]
The Rise and Fall of a Reformist Kim Ok-gyun (1851–1894) was a prominent Korean reformist during the late Joseon Dynasty, […]
The Tumultuous Backdrop of Late 19th-Century Korea The assassination of Korean reformist Kim Ok-gyun (金玉均) in Shanghai on March 28, […]
The Origins of Extraterritoriality and the Need for Mixed Courts The concept of extraterritoriality—where foreign nationals were exempt from local […]
The Tumultuous Backdrop of Joseon Korea The late 19th century was a period of profound upheaval for Korea’s Joseon Dynasty. […]
The Revolutionary in Exile Kim Ok-gyun (1851–1894) was a Korean reformist whose life and death became entangled in the geopolitical […]
The Exile Community in 1890s Japan In 1893, when Hong Jong-u arrived in Japan, the Korean exile community there was […]
A Reformer in Peril: The Origins of Kim Ok-gyun’s Exile Kim Ok-gyun, a prominent Korean reformist of the late 19th […]
