As East Asia regains its historical position as a world centre,
information on the history of regional relations becomes ever more
critical. Astonishingly, Northeast Asia enjoyed five centuries of
international peace from 1400 to 1894, broken only by one major
international war the invasion of Korea in the 1590s by Japan s
ruler Hideyoshi. This war involved Koreans, Japanese, Chinese
Southeast Asians and Europeans, saw the largest overseas landing in
world history up to that time, and devastated Korea. It also
highlighted the nature of the strategic balance in the region,
presenting China s Ming dynasty with a serious threat that perhaps
foreshadowed the dynasty s subsequent overthrow by the Manchus,
played a major part in the establishment of the Tokugawa regime
with its policy of peace and controlled access to seventeenth and
eighteenth century Japan, and demonstrated the importance for
regional stability of the subtle relationship of Korea to both
China and Japan. This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the
war and its aftermath in all its aspects military, political,
social and economic, and cultural. As such it deepens understanding
of East Asian international relations and provides important
insights into the strategic forces that continue to operate in the
region at present."
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