Category: Ming China & the War in Korea
Explores Ming China’s intervention, joint Korean–Ming campaigns, and how Chinese involvement shifted the course of the war.
Ming China’s Intervention in the Imjin War
In December 1592, 43,000 Ming Chinese troops crossed the frozen Yalu River into Korea. Their mission: expel 158,000 Japanese invaders who had conquered the Korean peninsula in just 20 days. Over the next six years, Ming China would commit over 100,000 troops, spend 26 million taels of silver, and fight battles from Pyongyang to Ulsan.…
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