Q&A · 2:45:44-2:46:52

Sources behind the Imjin War lecture

The lecture draws on Samuel Hawley, histories of Ming China and Korea, and teaching notes assembled from earlier reading rather than claiming a fresh primary-source survey.

Question

What sources did you use for this Imjin War presentation?

Short answer

Samuel Hawley's history, books on Ming China and Korea, and teaching notes previously compiled from those works and other sources.

Notes

Samuel Hawley's book is the one source explicitly shown during the presentation. The lecture also relies on older teaching notes built from histories of Ming China, Korea, and the war, without returning to every original source for this broadcast. That disclosure distinguishes a researched lecture from a new archival study. It gives viewers a practical starting point while preserving the earlier warning that the limited English-language literature must be read critically.