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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
British Documents on Foreign Affairs--reports and Papers from the Foreign Office Confidential Print: Treaty revision and Sino-Japanese dispute over Taiwan, 1868-1876
Author: British Documents on Foreign Affairs--reports and Papers from the Foreign Office Confidential Print: Chefoo Convention and its aftermath, 1876-1885
Author: Civilization and Empire
Author: Shogo SuzukiPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134063660
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
This book critically examines the influence of International Society on East Asia, and how its attempts to introduce ‘civilization’ to ‘barbarous’ polities contributed to conflict between China and Japan. Challenging existing works that have presented the expansion of (European) International Society as a progressive, linear process, this book contends that imperialism – along with an ideology premised on ‘civilising’ ‘barbarous’ peoples – played a central role in its historic development. Considering how these elements of International Society affected China and Japan’s entry into it, Shogo Suzuki contends that such states envisaged a Janus-faced International Society, which simultaneously aimed for cooperative relations among its ‘civilized’ members and for the introduction of ‘civilization’ towards non-European polities, often by coercive means. By examining the complex process by which China and Japan engaged with this dualism, this book highlights a darker side of China and Japan’s socialization into International Society which previous studies have failed to acknowledge. Drawing on Chinese and Japanese primary sources seldom utilized in International Relations, this book makes a compelling case for revising our understandings of International Society and its expansion. This book will be of strong interest to students and researcher of international relations, international history, European studies and Asian Studies.
British Documents on Foreign Affairs--reports and Papers from the Foreign Office Confidential Print: Suppression of Boxers and negotiations for China settlement, August 1900-October 1900
Author: British Documents on Foreign Affairs--reports and Papers from the Foreign Office Confidential Print: Boxer disturbances and siege of Peking, May 1900-August 1900
Author: British Documents on Foreign Affairs--reports and Papers from the Foreign Office Confidential Print: Instability in and beyond China, 1885-1892
Author: Japan’s Territory under International Law
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004706364
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
This volume sheds light on Japan's territorial situation from a unique perspective by analyzing the historical evolution of the concept of “territory” and the various legal theories on resolving territorial disputes. Each of the chapters in this book presents multiple points of view that provide significant insight into the resolution of Japan’s territorial issues, such as those concerning the Northern Territories, Takeshima, and the Senkaku Islands. This book will be a valuable and useful resource to practitioners, researchers, and even members of the general public with an interest in territorial disputes. Contributors are: Masaharu Yanagihara, Tadashi Mori, Tetsuya Yamada, Yuichi Sasaki, Atsuko Kanehara, Tomofumi Kitamura, Hironobu Sakai, Tomoko Fukamachi, and Dai Tamada.
Transforming Empire in Japan and East Asia
Author: Robert EskildsenPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 9811334803
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
This book examines the history of a military expedition the Japanese government sent to southern Taiwan in 1874, in the context of Japan’s subordination to Western powers in the unequal treaty system in East Asia. It argues that events on the ground in Taiwan show the Japanese government intended to establish colonies in southern and eastern Taiwan, and justified its colonial intent based on the argument that a state must spread civilization and political authority to territories where it claimed sovereignty, thereby challenging Chinese authority in East Asia and consolidating its power domestically. The book considers the history of the Taiwan Expedition in the light of how Japanese imperialism began: it emerged as part of the process of consolidating government power after the Meiji Restoration, it derived from Western imperialism, it developed in a dynamic relationship with Western imperialism and it increased Japan’s leverage in its competition for influence in East Asia.
Opium’s Long Shadow
Author: Steffen RimnerPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674976304
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
The League of Nations Advisory Committee on the Traffic in Opium and Other Dangerous Drugs, created in 1920, culminated almost eight decades of political turmoil over opium trafficking, which was by far the largest state-backed drug trade in the age of empire. Opponents of opium had long struggled to rein in the profitable drug. Opium’s Long Shadow shows how diverse local protests crossed imperial, national, and colonial boundaries to gain traction globally and harness public opinion as a moral deterrent in international politics after World War I. Steffen Rimner traces the far-flung itineraries and trenchant arguments of reformers—significantly, feminists and journalists—who viewed opium addiction as a root cause of poverty, famine, “white slavery,” and moral degradation. These activists targeted the international reputation of drug-trading governments, first and foremost Great Britain, British India, and Japan, becoming pioneers of the global political tactic we today call naming and shaming. But rather than taking sole responsibility for their own behavior, states in turn appropriated anti-drug criticism to shame fellow sovereigns around the globe. Consequently, participation in drug control became a prerequisite for membership in the twentieth-century international community. Rimner relates how an aggressive embrace of anti-drug politics earned China and other Asian states new influence on the world stage. The link between drug control and international legitimacy has endured. Amid fierce contemporary debate over the wisdom of narcotics policies, the 100-year-old moral consensus Rimner describes remains a backbone of the international order.
Japanese Imperialism, 1894-1945
Author: William G. BeasleyPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198221681
Category : Imperialism
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Studying the development, expansion, and eventual collapse of Japanese imperialism from the Sino-Japanese war of 1894-1895 through 1945, Beasley here discusses the dynamic relationship between a successful industrial economy and the building of an empire.