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<p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm; background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; color: black;">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. </span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm;" align="center"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.3pt; font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(196, 89, 17);"><b>“</b></span><span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(196, 88, 17);"><b>Toward
Middle People: The Downward Mobility of Military Officers after the Imjin War”</b></span><span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm; background-color: white;" align="center"><span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: black;"><b>Hu Jing
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Project) </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; color: black; background-color: white;">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.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></p>
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<p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm; background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "New serif", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">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. Our 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 our website </span><span style="font-family: "New serif", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: blue;"><a href="https://aftermath.uab.cat/news/" target="_blank" id="OWA46f7601f-5ddf-b8c1-d700-4cca9cb42ada" class="OWAAutoLink" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: blue;">https://aftermath.uab.cat/news/</a></span><span style="font-family: "New serif", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;"> .
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<p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 5pt; background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "New serif", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">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) </span></p>
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<p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 5pt; background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "New serif", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Kind regards, </span></p>
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<p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 5pt; background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "New serif", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Barend</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11.5pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30);"> </span></p>
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<div><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Postdoctoral Researcher<br>
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<div><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Departament de Traducció i d'Interpretació i d'Estudis d'Àsia Oriental<br>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020
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