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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 thirteenth session of the 2025-2026 Enemy Encounters in East Asia webinar series of the Research
Training Group "Ambivalent Enmity: Dynamics of Antagonism in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East\u201d at Heidelberg University and the Heidelberg University of Jewish Studies, Germany.</span></p>
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in the Age of Large-scale Piracy: Tactics and Combat Techniques of Japanese Pirates in Korea and China 1350-1419</span></b><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#C45811">\u201d</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:
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mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">(Maître de conferences, Université Bordeaux Montaigne)</span></p>
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<b><span lang="NL" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:
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NL">January 22, 2026, 3:00 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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CET) 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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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:
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EN-US">If you would like to attend the webinars, please contact
</span><a href="mailto:barend.noordam@hcts.uni-heidelberg.de"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US">barend.noordam@hcts.uni-heidelberg.de</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;
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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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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">, Damien Peladan (Maître de
conferences, Université Bordeaux Montaigne) will share his thoughts on warfare during the waves of Japanese piracy in Korea and China between 1350 and 1419:</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Between 1350 and 1419, the coastlines of Korea and China became frequent targets of pirate fleets operating from the Japanese archipelago. Known
in contemporary scholarship as \u201cJapanese pillagers\u201d </span></i><span lang="KO" style="font-family:"MS Mincho";mso-ascii-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-hansi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">\u502d\u5bc7</span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US">
(Ch. </span></i><em><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-style:normal">wokou</span></em><i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US">, Jap.
</span></i><em><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-style:normal">wak\u014d</span></em><i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US">, Kor.
</span></i><em><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-style:normal">waegu</span></em><i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US">), these fleets\u2014sometimes numbering dozens or even hundreds of ships and comprising thousands of individuals\u2014became
the scourge of Chinese and Korean coastal populations, as entire communities were repeatedly massacred or carried off into captivity.
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<p style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US">In response, Chinese imperial and Korean royal forces sought to repel these incursions, both at sea and on land, with varying degrees of success,
as the pirates often demonstrated considerable military proficiency. This presentation examines the range of tactics and fighting techniques employed by pirate groups when confronting Korean\u2014and, to a lesser extent, Chinese\u2014armies. As will be shown, although
guerrilla warfare predominated for much of the period, characterized by the skillful use of deception and subterfuge, pirate forces were at times capable of matching official armies in open engagements, both on land and at sea. A central aim of this study
is to trace the evolution of these tactics over time and to analyze how state authorities adapted their responses accordingly.</span></i></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;background:white"><u><span style="font-family:"New serif",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:black">BACKGROUND</span></u></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;
mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0cm;padding:0cm">For more information about the </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;
color:black">Research
Training Group "Ambivalent Enmity: Dynamics of Antagonism in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East\u201d<span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;
mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0cm;padding:0cm">, please go to our website
</span></span><span style="color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext"><a href="https://www.ambivalentenmity.uni-heidelberg.de/en"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The RTG also produces the podcast series
<i>Enemy Encounters </i>which features interviews and in-depth discussions conducted by members of the RTG with scholars, researchers and journalists about various cases of ambivalent enmity in Eurasia as a whole. It can be accessed
</span><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/enemy-encounters/id1783137716"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">here</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> and
</span><a href="https://music.amazon.de/podcasts/cac5885d-675c-4e4b-87fc-3f9cb9679405/enemy-encounters"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">here</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">.
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<p style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">This project has received funding from the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG).
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