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  • Beyond the San Francisco System

    Edited by Young-Ho Kim, Tae-Jin Yi, Wada Haruki, Dekun Hu, Alexis Dudden ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book, a eight-year interdisciplinary collaboration involving experts in international politics, law, economics, and history from six countries, meticulously analyzes the San Francisco Peace Treaty System and its profound implications. It critically examines how this system reflected the victim-centric approach of the United Nations while offering a crucial counter perspective from colonial ... Read more

    $161.09 USD

  • Peace in the East

    An Chunggun's Vision for Asia in the Age of Japanese Imperialism

    by Yi Tae-Jin, Eugene Y. Park, Kirk W. Larsen, Frederick R. Dickinson, Makino Eiji, Franklin D. Rausch, Sasagawa Norikatsu, Suh Young-Hee0, Totsuka Etsuro1, Wang Yuanzhou2, Xu Yong3, Yamamuro Shin'ichi4 ...
    Series series AsiaWorld
    On October 26, 1909, the Korean patriot An Chunggun assassinated the Japanese statesman Ito Hirobumi in Harbin, China. More than a century later, the ramifications of An’s daring act continue to reverberate across East Asia and beyond. This volume explores the abiding significance of An, his life, and his written work, most notably On Peace in the East (Tongyang p’yonghwaron), from a variety of ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

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  • Restless Empire

    China and the World Since 1750

    by Odd Arne Westad ...
    As the twenty-first century dawns, China stands at a crossroads. The largest and most populous country on earth and currently the world's second biggest economy, China has recently reclaimed its historic place at the center of global affairs after decades of internal chaos and disastrous foreign relations. But even as China tentatively reengages with the outside world, the contradictions of its ... Read more

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  • Japan Rising

    The Resurgence of Japanese Power and Purpose

    by Kenneth Pyle ...
    Japan is on the verge of a sea change. After more than fifty years of national pacifism and isolation including the "lost decade" of the 1990s, Japan is quietly, stealthily awakening. As Japan prepares to become a major player in the strategic struggles of the 21st century, critical questions arise about its motivations. What are the driving forces that influence how Japan will act in the ... Read more

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  • Dr. Sun Yat-Sen : his life and achievements

    by Dr. Sun Yat-Sen ...
    One of greatest achievements book is that Dr. Sun Yat-sen was able to find a living synthesis between the ancient and the modern, between the East and the West, and combining them together to make China a modern country. ... Read more

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  • Patriots, Traitors and Empires

    The Story of Korea's Struggle for Freedom

    by Stephen Gowans ...
    Patriots, Traitors and Empires is an account of modern Korean history, written from the point of view of those who fought to free their country from the domination of foreign empires. It traces the history of Korea's struggle for freedom from opposition to Japanese colonialism starting in 1905 to North Korea's current efforts to deter the threat of invasion by the United States or anybody else by ... Read more

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  • Korea A History

    by Bong-youn Choy ...
    This detailed, scholarly history of Korea is a comprehensive political and socioeconomic history from 57 B.C. to modern times, including North and South Korea.Specializing in Korean industrial structure, economic planning, and administration, the author presents a concise yet readable historical approach to a greater understanding of Korea's position in East Asia. The author, a political scholar ... 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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  • Japan's Total Empire

    Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism

    by Louise Young ...
    Series Book 8 - Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power
    In this first social and cultural history of Japan's construction of Manchuria, Louise Young offers an incisive examination of the nature of Japanese imperialism. Focusing on the domestic impact of Japan's activities in Northeast China between 1931 and 1945, Young considers "metropolitan effects" of empire building: how people at home imagined and experienced the empire they called Manchukuo ... Read more

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  • A Fractured Liberation

    Korea under US Occupation

    by Kornel Chang ...
    A New Yorker Best Book of the YearShortlist, Cundill History PrizeA poignant return to Korea’s forgotten “Asian Spring”—a moment ripe with possibility denied by the postwar US military occupation.When Japanese imperial rule ended in August 1945, the Korean peninsula erupted with hopes that had been bottled up for forty years. New mother Chŏn Sukhŭi marveled at the news, envisioning her son growing ... Read more

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  • Modern Japan’s Place in World History

    From Meiji to Reiwa

    Edited by Masayuki Yamauchi, Yuichi Hosoya ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This Open Access book includes chapters on the key turning points in modern Japanese history from the Meiji Restoration to Japan-China diplomatic normalization in the 1970s and beyond. The topics covered include the First Sino-Japanese War, the Russo-Japanese War, the First and Second World Wars, the Manchurian Crisis, the US Occupation, postwar Japan-China relations, and postwar decolonization. ... Read more

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