Boundless Winds of EmpireFor more than two hundred years after its establishment in 1392, the Chosn dynasty of Korea enjoyed generally peaceful and stable relations with neighboring Ming China, which dwarfed it in size, population, and power. This remarkably long period of sustained peace was not an inevitable consequence of Chinese cultural and political ascendancy. In this book, Sixiang Wang demonstrates how Chosn political actors strategically deployed cultural practices,