Editing Balhae (section)

==Controversies==
{{Main|Balhae controversies}}
{{See also|Northeast Project of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences}}

The historic position of Balhae is disputed between Korean, Chinese, Russian, and Japanese historians.<ref>{{Cite book |id= 和書 |author=酒寄雅志 |date=March 2001 |title= 渤海と古代の日本 |publisher= 校倉書房 |isbn= 978-4751731703 |page=16 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=iiIRAQAAMAAJ&q=%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A3%E3%83%95%E3%82%AF%E3%83%8E%E3%83%95}}</ref><ref name = "brief">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o-WlUd3cjh0C&dq=balhae+korean+mohe&pg=PP59|isbn = 9788973006199|title = A Brief History of Korea|date = January 2005|publisher = Ewha Womans University Press}}</ref> Korean scholars consider Balhae to be the successor state of Goguryeo, and part of the [[North–South States Period]] of Korean history. Chinese scholars argue that Balhae was a local administration of the Tang dynasty and composed of Mohe people, making it a part of Chinese history due to its close cultural and political ties with Tang China.<ref name="Kim2012">{{cite book|author=Jinwung Kim|title=A History of Korea: From "Land of the Morning Calm" to States in Conflict|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s2EVi-MpnUsC&pg=PA85|year=2012|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=978-0-253-00024-8|page=85}}</ref> The Russian [[Balhae controversies#Russian position|archaeological school]] views Balhae as a state of primarily Mohe people while Japanese scholars consider it a tributary state.<ref name = "brief"/><ref>{{Cite web |title=Эпиграфические материалы Бохая и бохайского времени из Приморья |trans-title=Epigraphic materials of Bohai and the Bohai period from Primorye. |url=https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/epigraficheskie-materialy-bohaya-i-bohayskogo-vremeni-iz-primorya/viewer |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20220615060859/https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/epigraficheskie-materialy-bohaya-i-bohayskogo-vremeni-iz-primorya/viewer |archive-date=2022-06-15 |access-date=2025-05-18 |website=cyberleninka.ru}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Рецензия на книгу: Дьякова О. В. Государство Бохай: археология, история, политика москва: Наука, Восточная литература, 2014. 319 с |trans-title=Review of the book: Dyakova O. V. The Bohai State: Archaeology, History, Politics. Moscow: Nauka, Eastern Literature, 2014. 319 pages. |url=https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/retsenziya-na-knigu-dyakova-o-v-gosudarstvo-bohay-arheologiya-istoriya-politika-moskva-nauka-vostochnaya-literatura-2014-319-s/viewer |access-date=2025-05-18 |website=cyberleninka.ru}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Государство Бохай и памятники его культуры в Приморье — книга Эрнста Шавкунова в Эвенкитеке |trans-title=The Bohai State and the Monuments of Its Culture in Primorye — a book by Ernst Shavkunov in Evenkiteka. |url=https://www.evenkiteka.ru/stellages/ethnography/gosudarsvo-bokhay-i-pamyatniki-ego-kultury-v-primorye/ |access-date=2025-05-18 |website=www.evenkiteka.ru}}</ref>