A Dragon's Head and a Serpent's Tail: Ming China and the First Great East Asian War, 1592-1598
Campaigns and Commanders series
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A fresh perspective on the late Ming and early modern East AsiaThe invasion of Korea by Japanese troops in May of 1592 was no ordinary military expedition: it was one of the decisive events in Asian history and the most tragic for the Korean peninsula until the mid-twentieth century. Japanese overlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi envisioned conquering Korea, Ming China, and eventually all of Asia; but Koreas account offers new insight not only into the history of warfare in Asia but also into a conflict that reverberates in international relations to this day.
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