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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black">Please see below for information about the first session of the 2024-2025 Enemy Encounters in East Asia webinar series of the Research Training
Group "Ambivalent Enmity: Dynamics of Antagonism in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East” at Heidelberg University, Germany.
</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;
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to a close, but it will be succeeded by this new webinar series.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;
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mso-themeshade:191;letter-spacing:-.3pt">“</span></b><b><span style="font-size:
14.0pt;color:#C45811">Ambivalent
Enmity in the Last Days of the Imjin War (1592-99): <span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>The Case of Mao Guoke”</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt"></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:
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<b><span lang="NL" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:
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NL">October 16, 2024, 4:00 PM (</span></b><b><span lang="NL" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
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CEST) via ZOOM. </span></b><span lang="NL" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
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<b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;
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EN-US">If you would like to attend the webinars, please contact
<a href="mailto:barend.noordam@hcts.uni-heidelberg.de">barend.noordam@hcts.uni-heidelberg.de</a>.
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<p style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;background:white"><a name="_Hlk75508898"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;
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padding:0cm;background:white;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">In
this session</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;
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background:white;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">, Wing Kin Puk (Associate Professor,
Chinese University of Hong Kong) will share his thoughts on ambivalent enmity during the Imjin War in Korea:</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;background:white"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
DengXian;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">It is a well-known fact that belligerents keep
fighting and negotiating with each other at the same time. However, in certain historical contexts, negotiation seems unacceptable. For the Imjin War, or the Korea War in the 16<sup>th</sup> century, the Ming government insisted that it was brought to an end
by the glorious victory of the Ming force. But Japanese and Korean archives revealed a more complicated fact: Ming frontline commanders and their Japanese counterparts negotiated a truce and exchanged hostages accordingly, while keeping fighting till the end.
This Webinar talk covers the intriguing and interesting story of one of the Ming hostages: Mao Guoke.</span></i><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:
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</span></i><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
DengXian;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">As a middle-ranking Ming officer, Mao Guoke was “dressed up” as the younger brother of his senior commander Mao
Guoqi and sent to Japan as a hostage. He returned to China after almost two years (1598–1600), expecting to be received as a hero but was dismissed as more of a “self-made hero.”</span></i></p>
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<u><span style="font-family:"New serif",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
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Training Group "Ambivalent Enmity: Dynamics of Antagonism in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East”<span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;
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