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  • The Japanese Informal Empire in China, 1895-1937

    Edited by Peter Duus, Ramon H. Myers, Mark R. Peattie ...
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    Volume two of the acclaimed three-volume series on modern Japanese colonialism and imperialismThis 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 ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Japanese Wartime Empire, 1931-1945

    Edited by Peter Duus, Ramon H. Myers, Mark R. Peattie ...
    With this book the editors complete the three-volume series on modern Japanese colonialism and imperialism that began with The Japanese Colonial Empire, 1895-1945 (Princeton, 1983) and The Japanese Informal Empire in China, 1895-1937 (Princeton, 1989). The Japanese military takeover in Manchuria between 1931 and 1932 was a critical turning point in East Asian history. It marked the first surge of ... Read more

    $33.89 USD

  • A Tokyo Anthology

    Literature from Japan’s Modern Metropolis, 1850–1920

    by Sumie Jones, Charles Shirō Inouye, Dr. Anthony H. Chambers, Joel Cohn, Rebecca L. Copeland, Alan Cummings, James Dorsey, Peter Duus, Matthew Fraleigh0, Howard Hibbett1, Ken K. Ito2, Dr. Matthew Koenigsberg3, Dylan McGee4, Professor John Pierre Mertz5, J. Scott Miller6, Professor Aiko Okamoto-MacPhail7, M. Cody Poulton8, Laurel Rasplica Rodd9, Professor Eiji Sekine0, Stephen Snyder1, Dr. Takashi Wakui2 ...
    The city of Tokyo, renamed after the Meiji Restoration, developed an urban culture that was a dynamic integration of Edo’s highly developed traditions and Meiji renovations, some of which reflected the influence of Western culture. This wide-ranging anthology—including fictional and dramatic works, essays, newspaper articles, political manifestos, and cartoons—tells the story of how the city’s ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Rediscovering America

    Japanese Perspectives on the American Century

    Edited by Peter Duus, Kenji Hasegawa ...
    Series Book 19 - Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power
    In this extraordinary collection of writings, covering the period from 1878 to 1989, a wide range of Japanese visitors to the United States offer their vivid, and sometimes surprising perspectives on Americans and American society. Peter Duus and Kenji Hasegawa have selected essays and articles by Japanese from many walks of life: writers and academics, bureaucrats and priests, politicians and ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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    by Bruce Cumings ...
    "Passionate, cantankerous, and fascinating. Rather like Korea itself."--Nicholas D. Kristof, New York Times Book ReviewKorea has endured a "fractured, shattered twentieth century," and this updated edition brings Bruce Cumings's leading history of the modern era into the present. The small country, overshadowed in the imperial era, crammed against great powers during the Cold War, and divided and ... Read more

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  • A History of Korea

    From "Land of the Morning Calm" to States in Conflict

    by Jinwung Kim ...
    A history of the divided region, from prehistoric times to present day, examining at political, social, cultural, economic, and diplomatic developments.Contemporary North and South Korea are nations of radical contrasts: one a bellicose totalitarian state with a failing economy; the other a peaceful democracy with a strong economy. Yet their people share a common history that extends back more ... Read more

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  • The Wars for Asia, 1911–1949

    by S. C. M. Paine ...
    The Wars for Asia, 1911–1949 shows that the Western treatment of World War II, the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Chinese Civil War as separate events misrepresents their overlapping connections and causes. The Chinese Civil War precipitated a long regional war between China and Japan that went global in 1941 when the Chinese found themselves fighting a civil war within a regional war within an ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

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  • The Japanese Empire

    Grand Strategy from the Meiji Restoration to the Pacific War

    by S. C. M. Paine ...
    The Japanese experience of war from the late-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century presents a stunning example of the meteoric rise and shattering fall of a great power. As Japan modernized and became the one non-European great power, its leaders concluded that an empire on the Asian mainland required the containment of Russia. Japan won the First Sino-Japanese War (1894–5) and the Russo ... Read more

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  • Burma/Myanmar

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by David I. Steinberg ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    In the past two decades, Burma/Myanmar has become a front-page topic in newspapers across the world. This former British colony has one of the most secretive, corrupt, and repressive regimes on the planet, yet it houses a Nobel Peace Prize winner who is and in and out of house arrest. It has an ancient civilization that is mostly unknown to Westerners, yet it was an important--and legendary- ... Read more

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  • Asia's Reckoning

    China, Japan, and the Fate of U.S. Power in the Pacific Century

    by Richard McGregor ...
    **A Financial Times Best Book of 2017“A shrewd and knowing book.” —Robert D. Kaplan, The Wall Street Journal“A compelling and impressive read.” —The Economist“Skillfully crafted and well-argued.” —Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Financial Times“An excellent modern history. . . . provides the context needed to make sense of the region’s present and future.” —Joyce Lau, South China Morning PostA history of the ... Read more

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  • Shrimp to Whale

    South Korea from the Forgotten War to K-Pop

    by Ramon Pacheco Pardo ...
    South Korea has the most remarkable of histories. Born from the ashes of colonialism, partition and a devastating war, back in the 1950s there were real doubts about its survival as an independent state. Yet South Korea did survive, and first became known globally for the export of cheap toys, shoes and clothing. Today, South Korea is a boisterous democracy, a vibrant market economy, a tech ... Read more

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  • Asia's Unknown Uprisings Volume 1

    South Korean Social Movements in the 20th Century

    by George Katsiaficas ...
    Using social movements as a prism to illuminate the oft-hidden history of 20th-century Korea, this book provides detailed analysis of major uprisings that have patterned that country’s politics and society. From the 1894 Tonghak Uprising through the March 1, 1919, independence movement and anti-Japanese resistance, a direct line is traced to the popular opposition to U.S. division of Korea after ... Read more

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