The definition that Westerners typically use to assert whether or not a
country was "dominant" is whether it received tributes from other states
(which I think is bullshit). For easterners, the nature of the tributes that
were received relative to those that were sent were more important.

Korea sent yearly tributes to the Qing court, and the Qing sent tributes to
the Chosun court.

Are you saying that the Japanese court never sent any yearly tributes to
either Chosun or the Qing court and vice-versa?

Austin


"shuji matsuda" <shuji__matsuda@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:bcd4i8$hl3gt$1@ID-37799.news.dfncis.de...
> In article <87mGa.657$XZ4.50862339@newssvr15.news.prodigy.com>,
> "USA" <USA@aol.com> wrote:
> :But is that type of "colonization" any different from say...China's
ancient
> :dominance over Korea and Japan?
> :The only difference here being that China is not a white country.
>
> I can see your point.  However, China has never had "dominance" over
> Japan except for the two failed attempts.