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China, Korea & Japan at War, 1592-1598 - Eyewitness Accounts (Paperback)
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China, Korea & Japan at War, 1592-1598 - Eyewitness Accounts (Paperback)
Series: Asian States and Empires
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The East Asian War of 1592 to 1598 was the only extended war before
modern times to involve Japan, Korea, and China. It devastated huge
swathes of Korea and led to large population movements across
borders. This book draws on surviving letters and diaries to
recount the personal experiences of five individuals from different
backgrounds who lived through the war and experienced its
devastating effects: a Chinese doctor who became a spy; a Japanese
samurai on his first foreign expedition; a Korean gentleman turned
refugee; a Korean scholar-diplomat; and a Japanese Buddhist monk
involved in the atrocities of the invasion. The book outlines the
context of the war so that readers can understand the background
against which the writers' lives were lived, allows the individual
voices of the five men and their reflections on events to come
through, and casts much light on prevailing attitudes and
conditions, including cultural interaction, identity, cross-border
information networks, class conflict, the role of religion in
society, and many others aspects of each writer's world.
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