By Urs Matthias Zachmann
The first warfare among China and Japan in 1894/95 was once some of the most fateful occasions, not just in smooth eastern and chinese language historical past, yet in overseas historical past to boot. The battle and next occasions catapulted Japan on its trajectory towards transitority hegemony in East Asia, while China entered a protracted interval of household unrest and overseas intervention. Repercussions of those advancements might be nonetheless felt, specifically within the mutual perceptions of chinese language and jap buyers. notwithstanding, regardless of massive scholarship on Sino-Japanese family, the complicated query is still how the japanese angle precisely replaced after the positive victory in 1895 over its former position version and competitor.
This booklet examines the transformation of Japan’s perspective towards China as much as the time of the Russo-Japanese warfare (1904/5), while the mental framework during which destiny Chinese-Japanese relatives labored reached its erstwhile finishing touch. It exhibits the transformation method via a detailed analyzing of resources, lots of that is brought to the scholarly dialogue for the 1st time. Zachmann demonstrates how glossy Sino-Japanese attitudes have been formed by way of a mess of things, household and foreign, and, in flip, knowledgeable Japan’s direction in overseas politics.
Winner of the JaDe Prize 2010 provided by way of the German beginning for the merchandising of Japanese-German tradition and technological know-how Relations
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China and Japan in the Late Meiji Period: China Policy and the Japanese Discourse on National Identity, 1895-1904 (Routledge/Leiden Series in Modern East Asian Politics, History and Media) by Urs Matthias Zachmann