Dragon's Head and A Serpent's Tail: Ming China and the First Great East Asian War, 1592-1598

by Kenneth M. Swope

Book Overview

The 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 Korea's appeal to China's Emperor Wanli for assistance triggered a six-year war involving hundreds of thousands of soldiers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806155817
• ISBN13: 9780806155814
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"