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The Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 : perceptions, power, and primacy

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The Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 : perceptions, power, and primacy / S.C.M. Paine.

Author

Paine, S. C. M., 1957-

Publication

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.

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xi, 412 p. : maps; 23 cm.

Summary

This book examines the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-5, a seminal event in world history that has been virtually ignored in the Western literature. This is not the case in the East where ever since the war, the focus of Chinese foreign policy has been to undo its results whereas the focus of Japanese foreign policy has been to confirm them. Japan supplanted China as the dominant regional power. Such a seismic reversal in the traditional power balance fractured the previous international harmony within the Confucian world and left an aftershock of enduring territorial and political fault lines that have embroiled China, Japan, Korea, Russia and Taiwan ever since.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 379-401) and index.

Contents

The reversal of the Far Eastern balance of power -- The decline of the old order in China and Korea -- The rise of a new order in Russia and Japan -- The beginning of the end : the outbreak of hostilities -- Japan triumphant : the battles of P'yôngyang and the Yalu -- China in disgrace : the battles of Port Arthur and the Weihaiwei -- The treaty of Shimonoseki and the Triple Intervention -- The era of global politics -- The cultural dimensions of the Sino-Japanese War.

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