Author: Ben Quincy LimbPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Japan
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Sei-Kan Ron, a Study in the Evolution of Expansionism in Modern Japan, 1868-1873
Author: Ben Quincy LimbPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Japan
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Japanese Perceptions of China in the Nineteenth Century
Author: Sushila NarsimhanPublisher:
ISBN: 8174840176
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
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.
The Abacus and the Sword
Author: Peter DuusPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520920903
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
What forces were behind Japan's emergence as the first non-Western colonial power at the turn of the twentieth century? Peter Duus brings a new perspective to Meiji expansionism in this pathbreaking study of Japan's acquisition of Korea, the largest of its colonial possessions. He shows how Japan's drive for empire was part of a larger goal to become the economic, diplomatic, and strategic equal of the Western countries who had imposed a humiliating treaty settlement on the country in the 1850s. Duus maintains that two separate but interlinked processes, one political/military and the other economic, propelled Japan's imperialism. Every attempt at increasing Japanese political influence licensed new opportunities for trade, and each new push for Japanese economic interests buttressed, and sometimes justified, further political advances. The sword was the servant of the abacus, the abacus the agent of the sword. While suggesting that Meiji imperialism shared much with the Western colonial expansion that provided both model and context, Duus also argues that it was "backward imperialism" shaped by a sense of inferiority vis-à-vis the West. Along with his detailed diplomatic and economic history, Duus offers a unique social history that illuminates the motivations and lifestyles of the overseas Japanese of the time, as well as the views that contemporary Japanese had of themselves and their fellow Asians.
Concise Dictionary of Modern Japanese History
Author: Janet HunterPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520043909
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
This is a concise, reliable guide to the people, places, events, and ideas of significance from the Meiji Restoration to the present.
Dissertation Abstracts International
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 822
Book Description
Newsletter of Research on Japanese Politics
Author: Dissertations in History, 1970-June 1980
Author: Warren F. KuehlPublisher: Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-Clio
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
American Doctoral Dissertations
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertation abstracts
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
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