![]() ![]() Even fewer studies in any language address the rhetoric of the war, or what Haboush calls the "war of words" (p. The East Asian War of 1592–1598 has been extensively examined in Korean and Japanese, but we have few studies in English. ![]() Haboush, and we owe them our appreciation. Bringing this unfinished manuscript to press was a labor of love by her close friends, her loyal students, and her widower, William J. I cherish at least two delightful memories of her: peering together through the fading light at Ch'ŏnji (the crater lake atop Mount Paektu) in 1988 and enjoying several days of spirited debate in Oxford in 2001 at an invitational conference on the East Asian War of 1592–1598. JaHyun Kim Haboush was a colleague and friend to many of us. Reviewing this posthumous book is a heavy burden, because I will not have the pleasure of discussing it with the author herself. Xenophanes of Colophon, Fragment 22 (570–478 BCE) 1 ![]()
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