WPS 106 Japan–The Tiny Dwarf? Sino-Japanese Relations from the Kangxi to the Early Qianlong Reigns
Sino-Japanese relations experienced great qualitative changes during the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. By the reign period of the Yongzheng Emperor (r. 1723–1735) one can even speak of a partial reversal of the former master-vassal relationship, which existed during the Ming period: whereas during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries Japan was the vassal which had …