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The relationship between China and Japan remains among the most significant of all the world’s bilateral affairs—yet it is also the most tortured and the least understood. Akira Iriye adds brilliant clarity to the past century of Chinese–Japanese interactions in this masterful interpretive survey.
Placing the relationship within its global context, he outlines three distinct periods in the history of these Asian giants. From the 1880s to World War I, the two nations struggled for power. Armaments, war strategies, and security measures played pivotal roles, reflecting the importance 0f military calculations in a world dominated by Western governments.
In the second period, that between the two World Wars, Iriye illuminates the dominant role of culture and the stress on internationalism. China’s continuing literary influence, an exchange of ideas and students reforms such as Japan’s Taisho democracy and China’s May Fourth movement, and both nations’ bid for racial equality in the West profoundly affected these interwar years.
The third period reaches from the end of World War II through the present day, and is characterized by exchanges of an economic nature: trade, shipping, investment, and emigration. The author discusses the results of China’s civil war, the rise and decline 0f the Cold War in the West, and the cultural and ecological problems brought by Japan’s spiraling economic development. But economic ties remain deeply entwined with cultural concerns, and ultimately, Iriye stresses, the future of China and Japan depends on the successful cultural interdependence of what may be the most significant pair of countries in the world today.
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About the Author
Akira Iriye is Charles Warren Professor of American History and Director of the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University.
Review
The best single work available on this host complex relationship, which too often has been the subject of politicized and simplified analysis. (William Kirby (Harvard University))
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- PublisherHarvard University Press
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0674118383
- ISBN 13 9780674118386
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages168
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The relationship between China and Japan remains among the most significant of all the world's bilateral affairs. Akira Iriye adds clarity to the past century of Chinese-Japanese interactions in this interpretive survey. Placing the relationship within its global context, he outlines three distinct periods in the history of these Asian giants. From the 1880s to World War I, the author shows the two nations issuing messages of power. Armaments, wars, strategies, and security measures played pivotal roles, reflecting the importance of military calculations in a world dominated by Western governments. In the second period, between the World Wars, issues of culture eclipsed expressions of power. The relationship of the two countries became the exchange of ideas, technologies, students, tourists, and propaganda. Iriye illuminates the dominant role of culture during these years, and offers a coherent picture of the violent Sino-Japanese War. He also explores the rise of mass nationalism in China as well as Japan's hope that China would participate in Asian cultural renewal against the West. The third period reaches from the end of World War II through the 1990s and is characterized by exchanges of an economic nature: trade, shipping, investment, and emigration. Exploring the roots of this shift, the author discusses the results of China's civil war, the rise and decline of the Cold War, and deeply entrenched issues of culture. Economic ties, however predominant, remain buttressed by renewed cultural ties, and, as Iriye shows, the greatest challenges for the future rest in the cultural interdependence of what is perhaps the most significant pair of countries in the world today. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # GOR013716687
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