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The Jiajing wokou raids caused extensive damage to the coast of China in the 16th century, during the reign of the Jiajing Emperor (r. 1521–67) in the Ming dynasty.The term "wokou" originally referred to Japanese pirates who crossed the sea and raided Korea and China; however, by the mid-Ming, the wokou consisted of multinational crewmen that included the Japanese and the Portuguese, but a ...
Wang Zhi was a native of She County of Huizhou (in present-day Huangshan City, Anhui).His mother was surnamed Wāng (汪) as opposed to his father's Wáng (王).Owing to the similar surnames of his parents, some sources refer to Wang Zhi by his mother's surname, thus rendering his name as Wāng Zhi 汪直 instead of Wáng Zhi 王直. [1]
14th and 16th-century wokou pirate raids One of the gates of the Chongwu Fortress on the Fujian coast (originally built c. 1384). The origin of the term wokou dates back to the 4th century, but among wokou's activities, which are divided into two academic periods, the pirates called "early wokou" were borne from the Mongol invasions of Japan.
Hu Zongxian (Chinese: 胡宗憲; November 4, 1512 [1] – November 25, 1565 [2]), courtesy name Ruzhen (汝貞) and art name Meilin (梅林), was a Chinese general and politician of the Ming dynasty who presided over the government's response to the wokou pirate raids during the reign of the Jiajing Emperor.
Wokou raid Saryang-jin [1] 1555: Wokou raid Joseon [1] 1583: Yi Sun-sin defeats a Jurchen force near the Tumen River [2] 1587: Yi Sun-sin is demoted to a common soldier after annoying I Il [2] Toyotomi Hideyoshi sends an insulting letter to the Joseon court [3] 1588: Toyotomi Hideyoshi sends envoys asking the Joseon court to aid them in ...
Qi Jiguang documented his ideas and experience in the form of two books on military strategy, the Ji Xiao Xin Shu (紀效新書) and the Lianbing Shiji (練兵實紀) or Record of Military Training. He also wrote a great number of poems and proses , which he compiled into the Collection of Zhizhi Hall ( 止止堂集 ), named after his study ...
The wokou abandoned the ships and swam away, with some drowning due to the weight of their armor. [12] The Spanish had suffered their first casualties, among them the galley's captain Pedro Lucas. [12] The flotilla continued down the Cagayán River, finding a fleet of eighteen sampans and a Wokou fort erected inland. The Spanish fleet forced ...
Download QR code; Print/export ... Pages in category "1553 books" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. ... Code of Conduct;