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CHINA AND KOREA: A SHARED HERITAGE
In this issue of China Heritage Quarterly we examine the shared cultural heritage of China and Korea, an area of often intense debate and rivalry that has been characterised by some as the 'north-east Asian history wars'. The most bitter exchanges concern the dual role that the ancient kingdom of Gaogouli/Koguryeo plays in the histories of both China and Korea. Scholars in those countries have also been in heated debate over the invention of moveable type printing, the 'ownership' of the Mid-Autumn Festival and a number of other contested areas of cultural heritage.
We discuss these topics in this issue and, under New Scholarship, also present Dane Alston's examination of a diplomatic exchange between a Chinese emperor and a Korean envoy through the medium of poetry, a discourse attempting to define Koryo's geopolitical identity. Given the block-buster exhibition related to Qin Shihuang, the First Emperor of China, that opened at the British Museum in September 2007, we are also including a short review of a book published to coincide with that event (see 'Hu's First Emperor' in New Scholarship).
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