His other works include America’s Man in Korea: The Private Letters of George C. Hawley is now residing in Canada and has devoted himself to writing full-time. Like most of the membership of the Samurai Archives, Samuel Hawley is an amateur historian-which is what makes his The Imjin War and the amount of research that went into preparing the book that much more inspirational and endearing. Samuel Hawley spent 20 years living in Japan and then Korea, where he was an instructor at Yonsei University and a member of the governing council of the Korean branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. It is therefore encouraging to see increasing interest in this topic, and indeed we have seen a number of new works, including Stephen Turnbull's Samurai Invasion: Japan's Korean War, 1592-1598 (Cassell, 2002) and Byonghyon Choi's translation of Yu Songnyong's The Book of Corrections: Reflections on.On behalf of the Samurai Archives, I’m pleased to be interviewing Samuel Hawley, author of The Imjin War: Japan’s Sixteenth Century Invasion of Korea and Attempt to Conquer China.
The war left indelible legacies in all three countries involved, especially Korea, yet despite its importance little scholarly attention has been given to it outside of Korea. It was one of the most significant regional military conflicts in premodern East Asia, with the newly unified Japanese military forces battling against the combined forces of Choson Korea and Ming China. Samuel Hawley's book is a recent addition to the growing number of academic and general monographs on the Japanese invasion of Choson Korea at the end of the sixteenth century (1592-1598), often referred to as either the Japanese invasion of Korea or the Imjin War (imjin waeran). Seoul: Royal Asiatic Society, Korea Branch, Publications and Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, 2005. The Imjin War: Japan's Sixteenth-Century Invasion of Korea and Attempt to Conquer China, by Samuel Hawley.
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