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'''Xuantu Commandery''' was an one of the remnants of the [[Four Commanderies of Han|Four Commanderies]], which was set in the northern [[Korean Peninsula]] and part of the [[Liaodong Peninsula]] by the [[Han dynasty|Han]] [[China]]. It was established in 107 BCE, after the [[Han dynasty]] invaded [[Wiman Joseon]] of Korea. Korean kingdom of [[Goguryeo]] rose in this area in competition with the Chinese over the region. Although Goguryeo gained full control over the general region in 302, [[Eastern Han dynasty|Later Han]] had already lost the earlier territory of Xuantu, which retreated to [[Liaodong Peninsula]] in the 1st century CE. The populations of the respective prefectures were greatly reduced after they were transferred to Liaodong, but their prefectural identities were preserved albeit nominally.
'''Xuantu Commandery''' ({{zh|c=玄菟郡}}; {{langx|ko|현도군}}) was a [[Jun (country subdivision)|commandery]] of the Chinese [[Han dynasty]]. It was one of [[Four Commanderies of Han]], established in 107 BCE in the northern [[Korean Peninsula]] and part of the [[Liaodong Peninsula]], after the [[Han dynasty]] conquered [[Wiman Joseon]]. Xuantu moved its capital to Liaodong in 75 BC due to native resistance and the area formerly under the [[Lintun Commandery]] was transferred to the [[Lelang Commandery]]. Xuantu was conquered by Goguryeo in 319 AD.{{sfn|Park|2013|p=203-204}}


==History==
==History==
In 82 BCE, the Han dynasty reduced its commandery units; [[Lintun Commandery]] merged with Xuantu as a result. In 75 BCE, the Xuantu Commandery was forced to moved its seat from Fort [[Okjeo]] (沃沮城) to Gaogouli County due to raids by the [[Yemaek|Maek tribes]] (貊), a likely reference to Gaogouli. As a result, some of its previous prefectures had now to be abandoned or reassigned, seven of which were subject to [[Lelang Commandery]], the so-called "seven prefectures beyond the eastern pass" (嶺東七縣).
In 82 BCE, the Han dynasty reduced its commandery units; [[Lintun Commandery]] merged with Xuantu as a result. In 75 BCE, the Xuantu Commandery was forced to move its seat from Fort [[Okjeo]] (沃沮城) to [[Gaogouli County]] due to raids by the [[Yemaek|Maek tribes]] (貊), a likely reference to Gaogouli. As a result, some of its previous counties had now to be abandoned or reassigned, seven of which were subject to [[Lelang Commandery]], the so-called "seven counties beyond the eastern pass" (嶺東七縣).


As a result of the change, only three prefectures remained under Xuantu Commandery: [[Gaogouli County]] (高句驪), Shangyintai (上殷台) and Xigaima (西蓋馬).<ref>《漢書·地理志》：“玄菟郡......, 縣三：高句驪、上殷台、西蓋馬”</ref>
As a result of the change, only three counties remained under Xuantu Commandery: [[Gaogouli County]], Shangyintai (上殷台) and Xigaima (西蓋馬).<ref>《漢書·地理志》：“玄菟郡......, 縣三：高句驪、上殷台、西蓋馬”</ref>


''[[The Book of Han]]'' records 45,006 households and 221,845 individuals in Xuantu Commandery for year 2 CE.<ref>玄菟郡......, 戶四萬五千六。口二十二萬一千八百四十五。[[:s:zh:漢書/卷028下|Wikisource: the Book of Han, volume 28-2]]</ref>
''[[The Book of Han]]'' records 45,006 households and 221,845 individuals in Xuantu Commandery for year 2 CE.<ref>玄菟郡......, 戶四萬五千六。口二十二萬一千八百四十五。[[:s:zh:漢書/卷028下|Wikisource: the Book of Han, volume 28-2]]</ref>


When General [[Sima Yi]] of [[Cao Wei]] conquered [[Gongsun Yuan]] in [[Sima Yi's Liaodong campaign|his military campaign against Liaodong]] in 238, there remained only four prefectures in the new Xuantu Commandery that had retreated west (present-day [[Fushun]]): Gaogouli (高句麗), Gaoxian (高顯), Liaoyang (遼陽), and Wangping (望平). These would all fall within the influence of the fast-growing state of [[Goguryeo]] within the next century, and Goguryeo would end up ruling much of the previously Han-occupied part of the Northern Korean Peninsula.<ref>{{cite book |accessdate=2012-02-09 |year=1996|quote=Soon after, the Wei fell to the Jin and Koguryŏ grew stronger, until in 313 they finally succeeded in occupying Lelang and bringing to an end the 400 years of China's presence in the peninsula, a period sufficient to ensure that for the next 1,500 it would remain firmly within the sphere of its culture. After the fall of the Jin in 316, the proto-Mongol Xianbei occupied the North of China, of which the Murong clan took the Shandong area, moved up to the Liao, and in 341 sacked and burned the Koguryŏ capital at Hwando. They took away some thousands of prisoners to provive cheap labour to build more walls of their own, and in 346 went on to wreak even greater destruction on Puyŏ, hastening what seems to have been a continuing migration of its people into the north-eastern area of the peninsula, but Koguryŏ, though temporarily weakened, would soon|url=https://books.google.com/books?ei=5nRVTpPGEsSBgAeaxOxJ&ct=result&id=tKTtAAAAMAAJ&dq=After+the+fall+of+the+Jin+in+316%2C+the+proto-Mongol+Xianbei+occupied+the+North+of+China%2C+of+which+the+Murong+clan+took+the+Shandong+area%2C+moved+up+to+the+Liao%2C+and+in+341+sacked+and+burned+the+Kogury6+capital+at+Hwando&q=murong+clan+burned|edition=illustrated|isbn=0-7103-0532-X|volume=|series=|location= |publisher=Kegan Paul International|title=A history of Korea|author=Charles Roger Tennant|authorlink = Roger Tennant|language=|page=22|pages= }}</ref>
When General [[Sima Yi]] of [[Cao Wei]] conquered [[Gongsun Yuan]] in [[Sima Yi's Liaodong campaign|his military campaign against Liaodong]] in 238, there remained only four counties in the new Xuantu Commandery that had retreated west (present-day [[Fushun]]): Gaogouli, Gaoxian (高顯), Liaoyang (遼陽), and Wangping (望平). Xuantu was conquered by [[Goguryeo]] in 319 AD.<ref>{{cite book|author=Charles Roger Tennant|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tKTtAAAAMAAJ&q=murong+clan+burned|title=A history of Korea|publisher=Kegan Paul International|year=1996|isbn=978-0-7103-0532-9|edition=illustrated|page=22|quote=|author-link=Roger Tennant|access-date=2012-02-09}}</ref>{{sfn|Park|2013|p=204}}


==Revisionism==
==Revisionism==
In the [[North Korea]]n academic community and some part of the [[South Korea]]n academic community, the Han dynasty's annexation of the Korean peninsula have been denied. Proponents of this revisionist theory claim that the Four Commandaries of Han actually existed outside of the Korean peninsula, and place them somewhere in [[Liaodong Commandery]], China instead. According to this theory, the Xuantu Commandery was said to be located in [[Shenyang]].
In the [[North Korea]]n academic community and some part of the [[South Korea]]n academic community, the Han dynasty's annexation of parts of the Korean peninsula have been denied. Proponents of this revisionist theory claim that the Four Commanderies of Han actually existed outside of the Korean peninsula, and place them somewhere in [[Liaodong Commandery]], China instead. According to this theory, the Xuantu Commandery was said to be located in [[Shenyang]].


These hypotheses are "[[dictatorial]]" in the academic community of North Korea, which is supported by the amateur historical enthusiasts in South Korea, but this theory is not recognized at all in the academic circles of the [[United States]], [[China]] and [[Japan]].<ref group="note">
These hypotheses are authoritative in the academic community of North Korea, which is supported by the amateur historical enthusiasts in South Korea, but this theory is not recognized at all in the academic circles of the [[United States]], [[China]] and [[Japan]].<ref>{{citation|title=Constructing "Korean" Origins: A Critical Review of Archaeology, Historiography, and Racial Myth in Korean State Formation Theories|first=Hyung Il|last=Pai|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QxztLeLoVkQC&pg=PA129|publisher=Harvard University Asia Center|pages=127–129|year=2000|isbn=9780674002449}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=United States Congress|title=North Korea: A Country Study|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ybmFuqReAqUC&pg=PA6|year=2016|publisher=Nova Science Publishers|isbn=978-1590334430|page=6}}</ref><ref>
*{{cite book|last=United States Congress|first=|title=North Korea: A Country Study|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ybmFuqReAqUC&pg=PA6&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false|year=2016|publisher=Nova Science Publishers|isbn=978-1590334430|page=6}}
{{cite book|last=Connor|first=Edgar V.|title=Korea: Current Issues and Historical Background|year=2003|publisher=Nova Science Publishers|isbn=978-1590334430|page=112}}
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</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Kim|first=Jinwung|title=A History of Korea: From "Land of the Morning Calm" to States in Conflict|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QFPsi3IK8gcC&pg=PA18|year=2012 |publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=978-0253000248|page=18}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Lee|first=Peter H.|title=Sourcebook of Korean Civilization|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N66XyMJ_sNsC&pg=PA227|year=1993|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=978-0231079129|page=227}}</ref>
:"Han Chinese built four commanderies, or local military units, to rule the peninsula as far south as the Han River, with a core area at Lolang (Nangnang in Korean), near present-day P'yongyang. It is illustrative of the relentlessly different historiography practiced in North Korea and South Korea, as well as both countries' dubious projection backward of Korean nationalism, that North Korean historians denied that the Lolang district was centered in Korea and placed it northwest of the peninsula, possibly near Beijing."
*{{cite book|last=Connor|first=Edgar V.|title=Korea: Current Issues and Historical Background|url=|year=2003|publisher=Nova Science Publishers|isbn=978-1590334430|page=112}}
:"They place it northwest of the peninsula, possibly near Beijing, in order to de- emphasize China's influence on ancient Korean history."
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*{{cite book|last=Kim|first=Jinwung|title=A History of Korea: From "Land of the Morning Calm" to States in Conflict|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QFPsi3IK8gcC&pg=PA18&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false|year=2012 |publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=978-0253000248|page=18}}
:"Immediately after destroying Wiman Chosŏn, the Han empire established administrative units to rule large territories in the northern Korean peninsula and southern Manchuria."
*{{cite book|last=Lee|first=Peter H.|title=Sourcebook of Korean Civilization|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N66XyMJ_sNsC&pg=PA227&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false|year=1993|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=978-0231079129|page=227}}
:"But when Emperor Wu conquered Choson, all the small barbarian tribes in the northeastern region were incorporated into the established Han commanderies because of the overwhelming military might of Han China."
*{{cite book|last=Barnes|first=Gina|title=State Formation in Korea|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yK8m1XiEKz0C&pg=PA17&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false|year=2000|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0700713233|page=17}}
:"Despite recent suggestions by North Korean scholars that Lelang was not a Chinese commandery, the traditional view will be adhered to here. Lelang was one of four commanderies newly instituted by the Han Dynasty in 108 BC in the former region of Chaoxian. Of these four commanderies, only two (Lelang and Xuantu) survived successive reorganizations; and it seems that even these had their headquarters relocated once or twice."
* {{citation|title=Reinterpreting Traditional History in North Korea|first=Yŏng-ho|last=Ch'oe|volume=40|number=3|journal=The Journal of Asian Studies|date=May 1981|pages=509|doi=10.2307/2054553}}.
:"North Korean scholars, however, admit that a small number of items in these tombs resemble those found in the archaeological sites of Han China. These items, they insist, must have been introduced into Korea through trade or other international contacts and "should not by any means be construed as a basis to deny the Korean characteristics of the artifacts" found in the P'yongyang area."
*{{cite book|last=Jr. Clemens|first=Walter C.|title=North Korea and the World: Human Rights, Arms Control, and Strategies for Negotiation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k0BKDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA26&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false|year=2016|publisher=University Press of Kentucky|isbn=978-0813167466|page=26}}
:"Chinese forces subsequently conquered the eastern half of the peninsula and made lolang, near modern Pyongyang, the chief base for Chinese rule. Chinese sources recall how China used not only military force but also assassination and divide-and-conquer tactics to subdue Chosŏn and divide the territory into four commanderies."
*{{cite book|last=Seth|first=Michael J.|title=A Concise History of Korea: From Antiquity to the Present|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5URKAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA19&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false|year=2016|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers|isbn=978-1442235175|page=19}}
:"The way of life maintained by the elite at the capital in the P'yongyang area, which is known from the tombs and scattered archaeological remains, evinces a prosperous, refined, and very Chinese culture."
*{{cite book|last=Seth|first=Michael J.|title=A Concise History of Korea: From Antiquity to the Present|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5URKAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA18&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false|year=2016|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers|isbn=978-1442235175|page=17}}
:"The Chinese, having conquered Choson, set up four administrative units called commanderies. The Lelang commandery was located along the Ch'ongch'on and Taedong rivers from the coast to the interior highlands. Three other commanderies were organized: Xuantu, Lintun, and Zhenfan. Lintun and originally Xuantu were centered on the east coast of northern Korea. Zhenfan was probably located in the region south of Lelang, although there is some uncertainty about this. After Emperor Wu's death in 87 BCE a retrenchment began under his successor, Emperor Chao (87-74 BCE). In 82 BCE Lintun was merged into Xuantu, and Zhenfan into Lelang. Around 75 BCE Xuantu was relocated most probably in the Tonghua region of Manchuria and parts of old Lintun merged into Lelang. Later a Daifang commandery was created south of Lelang in what was later Hwanghae Province in northern Korea. Lelang was the more populous and prosperous outpost of Chinese civilization."
*{{cite book|last=Bowman|first=John Stewart|title=Columbia Chronologies of Asian History and Culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cYoHOqC7Yx4C&pg=PA11&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false|year=2000|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=978-0231110044|page=11}}
:"Han China resumes its effort to subdue Korea, launching two military expeditions that bring much of the peninsula under Chinese control; it sets up four commanderies in conquered Korea."
*{{cite book|last=Mark E Byington |first=Project Director of the Early Korea Project|title=Early Korea 2: The Samhan Period in Korean History|url=|year=2009|publisher=Korea Institute, Harvard University|isbn=978-0979580031|page=172}}
:"The latter, associated with Han China, are important, as their discovery permits us to infer the existence of relations between the Han commanderies and the Samhan societies."
*{{cite book|last=Preucel|first=Robert W.|title=Contemporary Archaeology in Theory: The New Pragmatism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VCLkDFxkMjwC&pg=RA2-PT333&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false|year=2010|publisher=Wiley-Blackwell|isbn=978-1-4051-5832-9|page=296}}
:"The Wei Ji (compiled 233–97) places the Yemaek in the Korean peninsula at the time of the Han commanderies in the first century BC, giving them a specifically Korean identity at least by that time."
*{{cite book|last=Dr. Brian|first=Fagan|title=Ancient Civilizations|url=|year=2016|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1138181632|page=365}}
:"In 108 B.C. most of the Korean peninsula was divided into four Han commanderies, the most important of which was Lelang."
*{{cite book|last=Tuan|first=Yi-Fu|title=A Historical Geography of China|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xlulUDK3r-4C&pg=PA84&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false|year=2008|publisher=Aldine Transaction |isbn=978-0202362007|page=84}}
:"Northeastwards Emperor Wu's forces conquered northern Korea in 108 b.c. and established four command headquarters there."
*{{cite book|last=Kang|first=Jae-eun|title=The Land of Scholars: Two Thousand Years of Korean Confucianism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XB4UYXNQK1wC&pg=PA36&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false|year=2006|publisher=Homa & Seka Books |isbn=978-1931907309|page=36}}
:"Nangnang commandery centered around Pyeong'yang was established when Emperor Wu of Han China attacked Gojoseon in 108 BC and was under the rule of Wei from 238. Wei is the country that destroyed the Later Han dynasty."
* {{citation|title=Centering the Periphery: Manchurian Exile(s) and the North Korean State|first=Charles K.|last=Armstrong|journal=Korean Studies|volume=19|year=1995|pages=12|publisher=University of Hawaii Press|doi=10.1353/ks.1995.0017}}
:"North Korean historiography from the 1970s onward has stressed the unique, even sui generis, nature of Korean civilization going back to Old Chosön, whose capital, Wanggömsöng, is now located in the Liao River basin in Manchuria rather than near Pyongyang. Nangnang, then, was not a Chinese commandery but a Korean kingdom, based in the area of Pyongyang."
*{{cite book|last=Pratt|first=Keith|title=Everlasting Flower: A History of Korea|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1Gui8CdUfVoC&pg=PA10&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false|year=2006|publisher=Reaktion Books|isbn=978-1861892737|page=10}}
:"108 BC: Han armies invade Wiman Choson; Chinese commanderies are set up across the north of the peninsula"
*{{cite book|last=Nelson|first=Sarah Milledge|title=The Archaeology of Korea|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sANORB_MSRUC&pg=PA168&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false|year=1993|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9780521407830|page=168}}
:"The Chinese commanderies did not extend to the southern half of the peninsula, stretching perhaps as far south as the Han river at the greatest extent, but they did reach the northeast coast."
*{{cite book|last=Jones|first=F. C.|title=The Far East: A Concise History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ExWoBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA34&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false|year=1966|publisher=Pergamon Press|isbn=978-0080116419|page=34}}
:"He then divided the country into military districts, of which the most important was that of Lolang, or Laklang, with headquarters near the modern Pyongyang. Tomb excavations in this area have produced much evidence of the influence of Han civilization in northern Korea."
*{{cite book|last=Swanström|first=Niklas|title=Sino-Japanese Relations: The Need for Conflict Prevention and Management|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dfUYBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA13&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false|year=2009|publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing|isbn=978-1847186201|page=13}}
:"Under Emperor Wu-ti, Han China extended her influence into Korea, and in 108 B.C., the peninsula became a part of the Chinese Empire, with four dependent provinces under the Chinese charge."
*{{cite book|last=Meyer|first=Milton W.|title=Asia: A Concise History|year=1997 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |url=https://books.google.co.jp/books?id=DbQcAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA118&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false|isbn=978-0847680634|page=118}}
:"In southern Manchuria, and northern and central Korea, the Chinese established four commanderies, which were subdivided into prefectures."
*{{cite book|last=Olsen|first=Edward|title=Korea, the Divided Nation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CoITbXnIRrcC&pg=PA13&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false|year=2005|publisher=Praeger|isbn=978-0275983079|page=13}}
:"The Han dynasty created four outposts in Korea to control that portion of its border."
*{{cite book|last=Hwang|first=Kyung Moon|title=A History of Korea: An Episodic Narrativea|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cbRhAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA4&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false|year=2010|publisher=Palgrave MacMillan|isbn=978-0230205451|page=4}}
:"In the corridor between the peninsula and northeast China, the Chinese Han dynasty established four “commanderies” that ruled over parts of the peninsula and Manchuria, much as modern imperial powers governed their colonies."
*{{cite book|last=Eckert|first=Carter J.|title=Korea Old and New: A History|url=|year=1991|publisher=Ilchokak Publishers|isbn=978-0962771309|page=13}}
:"The territorial extent of the Four Chinese Commanderies seems to have been limited to the area north of the Han River."</ref>


==Maps==
==Maps==
<Gallery>
<gallery>
File:Hangunhyeon.PNG|Four Commanderies of Han with [[Jin (Korean state)|Jin]] in 106 BC
File:Hangunhyeon.PNG|Four Commanderies of Han with [[Jin (Korean state)|Jin]] in 106 BC
File:Ancient Korea Taihougun.png|Four Commanderies of Han in 3 AD
File:Ancient Korea Taihougun.png|Four Commanderies of Han in 3 AD
</Gallery>
</gallery>


==See also==
==See also==
*[[Four Commanderies of Han]]
*[[Four Commanderies of Han]]
*[[Lelang Commandery]]
**[[Lelang Commandery]]
*[[Daifang Commandery]]
**[[Lintun Commandery]]
*[[Zhenfan Commandery]]
**[[Zhenfan Commandery]]
*[[Lintun Commandery]]
*[[Daifang commandery]]
*[[Canghai Commandery]]
*[[Canghai Commandery]]

== Notes ==
{{Reflist|group=note}}
{{Reflist|group=note}}


==References==
==References==
<references/>
<references/>

==Bibliography==
* {{citation|last=Park|first=Jun-hyeong|year=2013|title=The Han Commanderies in Early Korean History: A Reconsideration of the Han Commanderies from a Broader East Asian Perspective}}


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Xuantu Commandery
Chinese name
Chinese玄菟郡
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinXuántú Jùn
Korean name
Hangul현도군
Hanja玄菟郡
Transcriptions
Revised RomanizationHyeondo-gun
McCune–ReischauerHyŏndo-kun
Four Commanderies of Han

Xuantu Commandery (Chinese: 玄菟郡; Korean: 현도군) was a commandery of the Chinese Han dynasty. It was one of Four Commanderies of Han, established in 107 BCE in the northern Korean Peninsula and part of the Liaodong Peninsula, after the Han dynasty conquered Wiman Joseon. Xuantu moved its capital to Liaodong in 75 BC due to native resistance and the area formerly under the Lintun Commandery was transferred to the Lelang Commandery. Xuantu was conquered by Goguryeo in 319 AD.[1]

History

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In 82 BCE, the Han dynasty reduced its commandery units; Lintun Commandery merged with Xuantu as a result. In 75 BCE, the Xuantu Commandery was forced to move its seat from Fort Okjeo (沃沮城) to Gaogouli County due to raids by the Maek tribes (貊), a likely reference to Gaogouli. As a result, some of its previous counties had now to be abandoned or reassigned, seven of which were subject to Lelang Commandery, the so-called "seven counties beyond the eastern pass" (嶺東七縣).

As a result of the change, only three counties remained under Xuantu Commandery: Gaogouli County, Shangyintai (上殷台) and Xigaima (西蓋馬).[2]

The Book of Han records 45,006 households and 221,845 individuals in Xuantu Commandery for year 2 CE.[3]

When General Sima Yi of Cao Wei conquered Gongsun Yuan in his military campaign against Liaodong in 238, there remained only four counties in the new Xuantu Commandery that had retreated west (present-day Fushun): Gaogouli, Gaoxian (高顯), Liaoyang (遼陽), and Wangping (望平). Xuantu was conquered by Goguryeo in 319 AD.[4][5]

Revisionism

[edit]

In the North Korean academic community and some part of the South Korean academic community, the Han dynasty's annexation of parts of the Korean peninsula have been denied. Proponents of this revisionist theory claim that the Four Commanderies of Han actually existed outside of the Korean peninsula, and place them somewhere in Liaodong Commandery, China instead. According to this theory, the Xuantu Commandery was said to be located in Shenyang.

These hypotheses are authoritative in the academic community of North Korea, which is supported by the amateur historical enthusiasts in South Korea, but this theory is not recognized at all in the academic circles of the United States, China and Japan.[6][7][8][9][10]

Maps

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  • Four Commanderies of Han with Jin in 106 BC
    Four Commanderies of Han with Jin in 106 BC
  • Four Commanderies of Han in 3 AD
    Four Commanderies of Han in 3 AD

See also

[edit]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ Park 2013, p. 203-204.
  2. ^ 《漢書·地理志》：“玄菟郡......, 縣三：高句驪、上殷台、西蓋馬”
  3. ^ 玄菟郡......, 戶四萬五千六。口二十二萬一千八百四十五。Wikisource: the Book of Han, volume 28-2
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Bibliography

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