Volume two of the acclaimed three-volume series on modern Japanese colonialism and imperialism
This book brings together essays by leading experts on the history of Japan to examine the period from 1895 to 1937 when Japan's economic, social, political, and military influence in China expanded so rapidly that it supplanted the influence of competing Western powers. They discuss how Japan's informal empire emerged in China after Japan entered the Treaty Port system in 1895 and how it shaped Japan's own internal development. How did Japan's informal empire expand in size and importance so that Japanese economic and security interests became heavily dependent on China? What influence did Japanese business groups, China experts, and military have on their government's China policy? How did the Japanese in China deal with the threatening rise of Chinese nationalism? Exploring these and other questions, these essays show how the pursuit of an informal empire in China played a profound role in the emergence of modern Japan. The contributors are Banno Junji, Barbara J. Brooks, Alvin D. Coox, Peter Duus, Albert Feuerwerker, Kitaoka Shin'ichi, Sophia Lee, Mizoguchi Toshiyuki, Ramon H. Myers, Nakagane Katsuji, Mark R. Peattie, Douglas R. Reynolds, and William D. Wray.
This is the second volume of a series on modern Japanese colonialism and imperialism. Volume one is The Japanese Colonial Empire, 18951945. Volume three is The Japanese Wartime Empire, 19311945.
Edited by:
Peter Duus,
Ramon H. Myers,
Mark R. Peattie
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 1014
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Spine: 27mm
Weight: 851g
ISBN: 9780691632629
ISBN 10: 0691632626
Pages: 494
Publication Date: 28 June 2016
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Preface, pg. ix*Introduction. Japan's Informal Empire in China, 1895-1937: An Overview, pg. xi*CHAPTER 1. The Changing Pattern of Sino-Japanese Trade, 1884-1937, pg. 10*CHAPTER 2. Japan's Big-Three Service Enterprises in China, 1896-1936, pg. 31*CHAPTER 3. Zaikabo: Japanese Cotton Mills in China, 1895-1937, pg. 65*Chapter 4. Japanese Imperiahsm in Manchuria: The South Manchuria Railway Company, 1906-1933, pg. 101*Chapter 5. Manchukuo and Economic Development, pg. 133*CHAPTER 6. Japanese Treaty Port Settlements in China, 1895-1937, pg. 166*CHAPTER 7. Training Young China Hands: Toa Dobun Shoin and Its Precursors, 1886-1945, pg. 210*CHAPTER 8. The Foreign Ministry's Cultural Agenda for China: The Boxer Indemnity, pg. 272*CHAPTER 9. Japanese Industrialists and Merchants and the Anti-Japanese Boycotts in China, 1919-1928, pg. 314*CHAPTER 10. China Experts in the Army, pg. 330*CHAPTER 11. China Experts in the Gaimusho, 1895-1937, pg. 369*CHAPTER 12. The Kwantung Army Dimension, pg. 395*CHAPTER 13. Japanese Imperialism in China: A Commentary, pg. 431*Contributors, pg. 439*Index, pg. 443
Peter Duus (19332022) was the William H. Bonsall Professor of History Emeritus at Stanford University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. Ramon H. Myers (19292015) was a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. Mark R. Peattie (19302014) was professor emeritus of history at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and a research fellow at the Hoover Institution.
