The Quartering of Ming Soldiers during the Korean War

• In Event: Financing the Sixteenth-Century Korean War (1592-98): The Experiences of Japan and Korea and Ming China

Abstract

This paper studies the cross-border movement of goods, money, and people between Ming China and Korea during the Korean War. It examines the experience of Ming quartermasters during the Japanese invasion of Korea and assesses the nature of challenges that they faced in the border region, including a difference in the media of exchange used in Ming China and Choson Korea at the end of the sixteenth century. It also analyzes the involvement of Chinese merchants in the Ming's war effort and how merchants affected the Ming armies' military campaign and Korea's wartime society.

Author

• Masato Hasegawa, New York University