Periodic Reporting for period 2 - Aftermath (THE AFTERMATH OF THE EAST ASIAN WAR OF 1592-1598.)
Okres sprawozdawczy: 2020-05-01 do 2021-10-31
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:
Sangwoo Han, "The marriage market for immigrant families in Chosŏn Korea after the Imjin War: women, integration, and cultural capital", International Journal of Asian Studies, 22nd January 2021.
Rebekah Clements, "Daimyo Processions and Satsuma’s Korean Village: A Note on the Reliability of Local History Materials", Japan Review, 35 (2021), pp. 219-230.
Sangwoo Han, "The Historical Background of the Popularity of Genealogies in Korea", Journal of Family History, 45:4 (2020), pp. 498-516
John Marshall Craig "The War of 1592-1598 and national identity" in John Marshall Craig, China, Korea & Japan at war, 1592-1598: eyewitness accounts (London: Routledge, 2020).
2. Website and Database.
A website to promote the work of the AFTERMATH project was launched on 25 September 2019. Simultaneously, the AFTERMATH team began developing the database for the Annotated Online Bibliography of research on the war in multiple languages. This database was launched on the website on 23 April 2020, in its first phase with over 350 bibliographic entries in nine languages. The study of the war has been fragmented within disciplinary boundaries of “Japanese Studies,” “Chinese Studies,” and “Korean Studies”, and has been hampered by the wide range of source languages (including, but not limited to premodern forms of Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Portuguese, Italian, and Spanish). The purpose of this database is therefore to bring together bibliographic information on modern books, articles, and dissertations relating to the Imjin War also known as Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s Invasions of Korea, and to make that information available to scholars in one easily searchable location. This database serves as a lasting legacy for the scholarly community, helping to overcome the fractured study of the war thus far. As of May 2021 the database contains over 700 entries in nine languages, primarily English, Korean, Japanese, and Chinese. Romanization is provided for Asian titles and author names. The range of subjects covered is as broad as possible in order to reflect the wide-reaching effects of the war. Subjects include captives, ceramics, Christianity, international relations, economy, environment, Europeans, identity, literature, military history, migration, social history, and trade.
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.