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100	0		_aHawley, Samuel, _eauthor.
245			_aThe Imjin War : _b Japan's sixteenth-century invasion of Korea and attempt to conquer China / _cSamuel Hawley.
250			_a2nd ed.
260			_a Lexington, KY : _bConquistador Press, _c c2014.
300			_a664 p. : _b illustrations, maps ; _c24 cm.
504			_aincludes index
520			_aIn May of 1592, Japanese dictator Toyotomi Hideyoshi sent a 158,800-man army of invasion from Kyushu to Pusan on Korea's southern tip. His objective: to conquer Korea, then China, and then the whole of Asia. The resulting seven years of fighting, known in Korea as Imjin Waeran, the 'Imjin invasion,' after the year of the water dragon in which it began, dwarfed contemporary conflicts in Europe and was one of the most devastating wars to grip East Asia in the past thousand years. The Imjin War is the most comprehensive account ever published in English of this cataclysmic event, so little known in the West. It begins with the political and cultural background of Korea, Japan and China, explores the diplomatic impasse that led to the war, describes every major incident and battle from 1592 to 1598 and introduces a fascinating cast of characters along the way. There is Hideyoshi, hosting garden parties as his armies march toward Beijing; Korean admiral Yi Sun-sin, emerging from a prison cell to take on the Japanese navy with just thirteen ships; Chinese commander Zhao Chengxun, suffering defeat after promising to ?scatter the Japanese to the four winds?; the courtesan Chu Non-gae, luring a samurai into her arms and then jumping into the Nam River with him locked in her embrace."--Provided by publisher
650			_aChina Foreign relations Korea
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