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

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Dragon's Head and A Serpent's Tail: Ming China and the First Great East Asian War, 1592-1598 - Swope, Kenneth M, Dr., PH.D
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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 and encompassing the whole region. For Japan, the war was "a dragon's ...

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Dragon's Head and A Serpent's Tail: Ming China and the First Great East Asian War, 1592-1598 2019, University of Oklahoma Press

ISBN-13: 9780806155814

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A Dragon's Head and a Serpent's Tail: Ming China and the First Great East Asian War, 1592-1598 2009, University of Oklahoma Press

ISBN-13: 9780806140568

Hardcover