The Great East Asian War and the Birth of the Korean Nation

by JaHyun Kim Haboush

Book Overview

The Imjin War (1592-1598) was a grueling conflict that wreaked havoc on the towns and villages of the Korean Peninsula. The involvement of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean forces, not to mention the regional scope of the war, was the largest the world had seen, and the memory dominated East Asian memory until World War II. Despite massive regional realignments, Korea's Chosŏn Dynasty endured, but within its polity a new, national discourse began...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231172281
• ISBN13: 9780231172288
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"