Land Without a Place

n Part Three, "Land Without a Place," the chronicles turn to the dislocation that followed Gojoseon's fall. The kingdom's sovereignty dissolved into fragments, its people scattered across contested borders, while Han commanderies pressed deeper into the northern frontier. Through the eyes of both Joseon survivors and Han courtiers, the narrative unfolds as a meditation on exile and ambition—how a land stripped of its place became the stage for empire's expansion and memory's endurance. Reflective and panoramic, this volume reveals how the smallest ambitions within the Han court reverberated across Joseon's broken landscape, reshaping identity and legacy between heaven and empire.