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Why Did the Local Elites of the Korean Peninsula Adopt Chinese Bronze Mirrors and Writing? - The Lelang Commandery and Han Administration in Ancient Korea | Sleepy Facts About History
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In 108 BCE, the Han dynasty established an administrative system on the banks of the Taedong River that would endure for over four centuries. This was the Lelang commandery, an imperial outpost near modern-day Pyongyang. Yet it was not a colony in any modern sense, nor was it merely a military garrison extracting tribute at swordpoint. It was a functioning bureaucracy where clerks recorded taxes on wooden slips, craftsmen produced lacquered goods, and a mixed population of Chinese settlers…
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