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Despite Ryûkyû's tributary relationship with China being a subordinate relationship, Ryukyuans felt strongly about their strong ties to China, and in the 1870s in particular, when the kingdom's links to China, and indeed the kingdom's very existence, were threatened, many royal officials and political activists, including [[Rin Seiko|Rin Seikô]] and others, took action in support of maintaining (or resuming) tributary relations. The final tribute mission was dispatched in [[1875]], and within the same year, Tokyo rebuked [[Ryukyu han|Ryûkyû han]] for doing so, and ended tributary/investiture relations.<ref>Schottenhammer, “Empire and Periphery?,” 175.</ref> Though in the end China took little action to block Japan's overthrow of the Ryûkyû Kingdom and annexation of the islands as [[Okinawa prefecture]], Beijing did issue formal complaints in the late 1870s against Japanese efforts to put an end to the sending of tribute, to no end. The 1875 mission proved to be the last one, and in [[1879]] Japan completed the overthrow of the kingdom, and annexation of its land.
Despite Ryûkyû's tributary relationship with China being a subordinate relationship, Ryukyuans felt strongly about their strong ties to China, and in the 1870s in particular, when the kingdom's links to China, and indeed the kingdom's very existence, were threatened, many royal officials and political activists, including [[Rin Seiko|Rin Seikô]] and others, took action in support of maintaining (or resuming) tributary relations. The final tribute mission was dispatched in [[1875]], and within the same year, Tokyo rebuked [[Ryukyu han|Ryûkyû han]] for doing so, and ended tributary/investiture relations.<ref>Schottenhammer, “Empire and Periphery?,” 175.</ref> Though in the end China took little action to block Japan's overthrow of the Ryûkyû Kingdom and annexation of the islands as [[Okinawa prefecture]], Beijing did issue formal complaints in the late 1870s against Japanese efforts to put an end to the sending of tribute, to no end. The 1875 mission proved to be the last one, and in [[1879]] Japan completed the overthrow of the kingdom, and annexation of its land.
==Korea==
Korea was consistently considered the most important, or highest status, tributary to China throughout the Ming and Qing dynasties. The [[Koryo Dynasty]] entered into tributary relations with the Ming almost immediately following the Ming's founding in [[1368]]. However, Koryo, and the [[Joseon|Choson dynasty]] which followed it, continued to pay tribute to the [[Mongols]]/[[Yuan Dynasty]] until [[1387]]. Choson also received tribute from the [[Jurchens]] from the 1390s until [[1404]] or [[1405]], when the Ming forced the Jurchens to pay tribute only to China.<ref>Joshua van Lieu, "The Tributary System and the Persistence of Late Victorian Knowledge," ''Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies'' 77:1 (2017), 83. </ref>
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