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This article looks into the rebellion of Myoch’ŏng and the role of the Koryŏ landscape as a political category of mediation. It analyzes the emergence of Myoch’ŏng as the pivotal figure of the rebellion of 1135-1136 and the narratives constructed around it. It also focuses on the disappearance of the landscape from these narratives. As a result of the rebellion of Myoch’ŏng, the Koryŏ landscape was 'dechronicled’; taken out of the chronicles as a political category. With the dehistoricizing of the landscape under the Mongol empire, moreover, time–history–was erased from the Koryŏ landscape, leaving a dehistoricized and depolitized space. This article seeks to understand the rebellion of Myoch’ŏng, to map its diverse pre-modern and modern readings, to connect these to the larger issue of community construction on the Korean peninsula and to chart the influence of the Koryŏ landscape as mediating factor in the maintenance of diverse Koryŏ identities, domestic and international.
