Periodic Reporting for period 3 - Aftermath (THE AFTERMATH OF THE EAST ASIAN WAR OF 1592-1598.)
Reporting period: 2021-11-01 to 2023-04-30
1.The movement of people and demographic change;
2.Environmental and economic impact:
3.Diffusion of technology as a result of the invasions.
1. Publications. Highlights include:
* Baihui D & Clements R. 2022, 'Fighting for Forests: Protection and Exploitation of Kŏje Island Timber during the East Asian War of 1592 to 1598', Environmental History, vol.27 no.3 pp 415-440. Winner of a 2023 Vandervort Prize from the Society For Military History.
*Clements R. 2022, 'Alternate Attendance Parades in the Japanese Domain of Satsuma, Seventeenth to Eighteenth Centuries: Pottery, Power and Foreign Spectacle', Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, vol.32 pp 135-158.
*Gonzalez, J. 2023. “La intromisión de los jesuitas en la política japonesa: el caso de la rebelión de Amakusa (1589-1590)”, Estudios de Asia y África, Vol. 58 Núm. 1, pp.34-64.
2. Virtual Exhibition/Digital History Project.
Stories of Clay (https://aftermath.uab.cat/stories-of-clay/) was launched on 7th Feb 2022 and is co-authored by Rebekah Clements and Seung Yeon Sang at the Autonomous University of Barcelona as part of the European Research Council Horizon2020 project “The Aftermath of the East Asian War of 1592-1598”. Stories of Clay combines the study of heirloom ceramic pieces and sherds, together with documentary evidence, to trace the experiences of Korean potters who were captured by Japanese troops and brought to Japan during the Imjin War (1592-1598).
3. Seminar/Webinar Series
A monthly seminar series for the AFTERMATH project was launched on 23 October 2019, providing a forum for the AFTERMATH team and invited guest speakers to present their research results and receive feedback from the scholarly community. The seminar series reflects the cross-over nature of the project, with experts from Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and European history backgrounds participating. During the COVID-19 lockdown, we took the seminar online, making it a webinar series. The webinar series now regularly attracts around 50 participants from all corners of the globe and has considerably raised the profile of the AFTERMATH project, as well as allowing us to connect with other scholars despite COVID-19 related travel restrictions. It has become one of the largest Asian studies research webinars in the world, and continues throughout the current reporting period.