Dr. Joshua Batts and Dr. Barend Noordam have co-edited a special section of the Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, examining the aftermath of the Imjin War. The special section, titled Legacies of the Imjin War (1592–1598) in and beyond East Asia, contains an introduction and five articles. It originates in presentations given at a the Mastery of Materialities: Resources and Technology in Post-Imjin War East Asia (1598-1650) conference that was held as part of the Aftermath project in 2024, and which also received funding from the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange Conference and Seminar Grants (grant agreement CS001-U-22) and the Japan Foundation Grant Program for Japanese Studies Projects (Ref. No. 10143637).
Legacies of the Imjin War (1592–1598) in and beyond East Asia “puts into conversation diverse – yet intersecting – fields through a consciously eclectic lineup of scholars to explore the material construction and deconstruction of memory, the emergence of new lifeways and pathways of knowledge circulation, and the personal and political responses to violence and the prospect of further conflict within and well beyond East Asia. Collectively, these articles map an atypical geography, tracing the reverberations of the conflict beyond the combatant countries and into the Hispanic Caribbean and beyond.”
Table of Contents:
Joshua Batts and Barend Noordam. “Introduction: Legacies of the Imjin War (1592–1598) in and beyond East Asia.”
Yang Liu. “From Natives to Captives: Transportation Routes and Destinies in the Imjin War.”
Eder Gallegos. “The New Spain Perspective on Japanese Military Technology and the Royal Artillery Foundry of Manila: A Global Aftermath of the Imjin War.”
Gowoon Seong. “‘Great Ming’ Inscribed Ceramics in Post-Imjin War Chosŏn: The Material Culture of Ming Loyalism.”
Kizaki Braddick. “The Life and Afterlife of Hizen Nagoya Castle.”
Jaime González-Bolado. “Pars Coray: The Circulation of Geographical Knowledge on Korea in Early Modern Europe.”
