During the 1801 anti-Catholic Persecution, the Korean court executed the Chinese priest Zhou Wenmou (1752–1801). Korean officials justified this unprecedented move by accusing him of “illicit border-crossing” and attempting to invoke “The Yongzheng Emperor’s Last Testament.” These strategies raise important questions: Why did border transgression and an imperial edict matter in legitimizing the execution of […]
Sino-Korean Relations and Anti-Catholicism in Late Chosŏn Korea