"Early in the seventeenth century, Northeast Asian politics hung in a delicate balance among the Chos???on dynasty in Korea, the Ming in China, and the Manchu. When a Chos???on faction realigned Korea with the Ming, the Manchu attacked in 1627 and again a decade later, shattering the Chos???on-Ming alliance and forcing Korea to support the newly founded Qing dynasty. The Korean scholar-official Na Man'gap (1592-1642) recorded the second Manchu invasion in his Diary of 1636, the only first-person account chronicling the ...
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"Early in the seventeenth century, Northeast Asian politics hung in a delicate balance among the Chos???on dynasty in Korea, the Ming in China, and the Manchu. When a Chos???on faction realigned Korea with the Ming, the Manchu attacked in 1627 and again a decade later, shattering the Chos???on-Ming alliance and forcing Korea to support the newly founded Qing dynasty. The Korean scholar-official Na Man'gap (1592-1642) recorded the second Manchu invasion in his Diary of 1636, the only first-person account chronicling the dramatic Korean resistance to the attack. Partly composed as a narrative of quotidian events during the siege of Namhan Mountain Fortress, where Na sought refuge with the king and other officials, the diary recounts Korean opposition to Manchu and Mongol forces and the eventual surrender"--
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