Table of Contents

Introduction Part 1: International and Domestic Background 1. The Relationship among China, Korea, and Japan in the Sixteenth Century 2. Korea’s Domestic Situation and Relations with Japan on the Eve of the Imjin Waeran 3. Trade and Violence in Korean-Japanese Relations, 1510-1609 Part 2: Invasion 4. The Imjin Waeran: Contrasting the First and the Second Invasions of Korea 5. The Japan-Ming Negotiations and Hideyoshi’s View of Chosŏn 6. Post-war Domain Source Material on Hideyoshi’s invasion of Korea: The Wartime Memoirs of Shimazu Soldiers 7. Activities of the Chosŏn Navy and Progress of Important Naval Engagements during the Imjin Waeran (1592-98) 8. A Consideration of Guerrilla Resistance in the Imjin Waeran 9. A Korean War 10. Ming Grand Strategy and the Intervention in Korea 11. Wanli China: Rethinking China’s Involvement in the Imjin Waeran 12. The Celestial Warriors: Military Aid and Abuse during the Korean War, 1592-98 Part 3: Impact and Memory 13. The Inestimable Benevolence of Saving a Country on the Brink of Ruin’: Chosŏn-Ming and Chosŏn-Later Jin Relations in the Seventeenth Century 14. Chosŏn Korea and Ming China After the Imjin Waeran: State Rituals in the Later Chosŏn Period 15. War and Cultural Exchange 16. The Imjin Waeran in Korean and Japanese Literature17. Fashioning Womanly Confucian Virtue: The Virtuous Woman in Post-war Literary Discourse Conclusion

About the Author

James B. Lewis is the University Lecturer in Korean History at the University of Oxford, UK.