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Please see below for information about the sixth session of the 2023-2024 webinar series of the "Aftermath of the East Asian War of 1592-1598" team at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

Title: “Toward Middle People: The Downward Mobility of Military Officers after the Imjin War”

Speaker: Hu Jing (Research Librarian, Berlin State Library & Research Support Technician, Aftermath of the East Asian War of 1592-1598 Project)

• January 17, 2024, 3:00 PM (Barcelona, CET) via ZOOM.
• The webinar will be recorded, but not the question time.
• If you would like to attend the webinars, please contact barend.noordam@uab.cat.
• If you already registered for previous seminars, there is no need to register again.

This is the sixth session of the webinar series 2023-2024 of the ERC project team, "Aftermath of the East Asian War of 1592-1598". In this session, Hu Jing (Research Librarian, Berlin State Library & Research Support Technician, Aftermath of the East Asian War of 1592-1598 Project) will share her thoughts on the downward social mobility of Korean military officers after the Imjin War.

BACKGROUND

The “Aftermath of the East Asian War of 1592-1598” project is a five year, European Research Council Starting Grant project (2018-2023) run by ICREA professor Rebekah Clements at the Department of Translation, Interpreting, and East Asian Studies at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. The project seeks to understand the legacy of the East Asian War of 1592-1598, also known as the Imjin War and Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s invasions of Korea. Aftermath will be the first large scale investigation to combine Japanese, Korean, and Chinese sources in order to understand, not the war itself, but something which is arguably even more important: the aftermath and its implications for early modern East Asia. The research focuses on three themes; Social change / Environment and economy / Diffusion of Technology. For more information about the “Aftermath of the East Asian War of 1592-1598” project, please go to the website https://aftermath.uab.cat/news/

This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 758347)