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The Journal of Northeast Asian History
- P-ISSN1976-3735
- E-ISSN3091-8685
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Seeing Silla through Besila in The Kushnameh: On Literary Interventions in the Historiography of Transcultural Silla
[Research Article] Seeing Silla through Besila in The Kushnameh: On Literary Interventions in the Historiography of Transcultural Silla
The Journal of Northeast Asian History / The Journal of Northeast Asian History, (P)1976-3735; (E)3091-8685
2025, v.22 no.1, pp.45-75
https://doi.org/10.23037/jnah.2025.22.1.002
(Freie Universität Berlin)
LEE,
J.
(2025). Seeing Silla through Besila in The Kushnameh: On Literary Interventions in the Historiography of Transcultural Silla. , 22(1), 45-75, https://doi.org/10.23037/jnah.2025.22.1.002
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Abstract
This article reconsiders the study of Silla’s interregional history with the Persian world, a field largely framed through archaeological finds from Gyeongju. While such approaches have been crucial for situating Silla within broad Silk Road networks, they often rely on an ambiguous category of “Sasanian Persian” and perpetuate the cognitive distance implicit in the enduring geographical label of seoyeok (lit. “western region”). As an additional avenue, this article turns to The Kushnameh, a twelfth-century Persian epic that contains extensive textual references to Besila—possibly a distant recollection of the long-vanished Korean kingdom, refracted through the imagined grandeur of the Sasanian Empire. Read not for factual verification but as a site where memory, imagination, and archival potential converge, The Kushnameh challenges positivist certainties in ancient Korean historiography and opens the field to interdisciplinary and multiperspective approaches that invite us to see the Persianate world beyond the lingering perception of the “other.”
- keywords
- Kushnameh, Silla-Persia Studies, Transcultural memory, Positivist historiography, New Historicism, Ḥakim Iranshāh ibn Abū’l-Khayr
- 투고일Received
- 2025-09-15
- 수정일Revised
- 2025-11-05
- 게재확정일Accepted
- 2025-11-25
- 출판일Published
- 2025-12-31
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