Ch. 11's elder-brotherism: it's also a replacement for China's self-positioning over centuries.
The Korean elites don't seem to have done a great job from some Korean perspectives, either. Do you know Hyung-Il Pai's Constructing Korean Origins: A Critical Review of Archaeology, Historiography and Racial Myth? It's controversial at best in the field, from what I can tell, but it is simultaneously somewhat sympathetic to the useful investigative work undertaken by occupation-era Japanese scholars and, well, angry about how their heavily biased perspectives on Korean history and archaeology have influenced subsequent Korean constructions of historiography and national formation. This review overlaps what I remember of it. I haven't looked for her recent Heritage Management in Korea and Japan: The Politics of Antiquity and Identity yet.
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The Korean elites don't seem to have done a great job from some Korean perspectives, either. Do you know Hyung-Il Pai's Constructing Korean Origins: A Critical Review of Archaeology, Historiography and Racial Myth? It's controversial at best in the field, from what I can tell, but it is simultaneously somewhat sympathetic to the useful investigative work undertaken by occupation-era Japanese scholars and, well, angry about how their heavily biased perspectives on Korean history and archaeology have influenced subsequent Korean constructions of historiography and national formation. This review overlaps what I remember of it. I haven't looked for her recent Heritage Management in Korea and Japan: The Politics of Antiquity and Identity yet.