The Imjin War (1592-1598) was a grueling conflict that wreaked
havoc on the towns and villages of the Korean Peninsula. The
involvement of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean forces, not to mention
the regional scope of the war, was the largest the world had seen,
and the memory dominated East Asian memory until World War II.
Despite massive regional realignments, Korea's Choson Dynasty
endured, but within its polity a new, national discourse began to
emerge. Meant to inspire civilians to rise up against the Japanese
army, this potent rhetoric conjured a unified Korea and intensified
after the Manchu invasions of 1627 and 1636. By documenting this
phenomenon, JaHyun Kim Haboush offers a compelling counternarrative
to Western historiography, which ties Korea's idea of nation to the
imported ideologies of modern colonialism. She instead elevates the
formative role of the conflicts that defined the second half of the
Choson Dynasty, which had transfigured the geopolitics of East Asia
and introduced a national narrative key to Korea's survival.
Re-creating the cultural and political passions that bound Choson
society together during this period, Haboush reclaims the root
story of solidarity that helped Korea thrive well into the modern
era.
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