Rethinking Sino-Japanese alienation : history problems and historical opportunities / Barry Buzan and Evelyn Goh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buzan, Barry, author.

Goh, Evelyn, author.

Contributor:

William E. Lingelbach Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

China--Foreign relations--Japan.

China.

International relations.

Japan.

Physical Description:

xvi, 339 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020.

Summary:

Bitterly contested memories of war, colonisation, and empire among Japan, China, and Korea have increasingly threatened regional order and security over the past three decades. In Sino-Japanese relations, identity, territory, and power pull together in a particularly lethal direction, generating dangerous tensions in both geopolitical and memory rivalries. Buzan and Goh explore a new approach to dealing with this history problem. First, they construct a more balanced and global view of China and Japan in modern world history. Second, building on this, they sketch out the possibilities for a 21st century great power bargain between them. Buzan puts Northeast Asia's history since 1840 into both a world historical and a systematic normative context, exposing the parochial nature of the China-Japan history debate in relation to what is a bigger shared story about their encounter with modernity and the West, within which their modern encounter with each other took place. Arguing that regional order will ultimately depend substantially on the relationship between these two East Asian great powers, Goh explores the conditions under which China and Japan have been able to reach strategic bargains in the course of their long historical relationship, and uses this to sketch out the main modes of agreement that might underpin a new contemporary great power bargain between them in a variety of future scenarios for the region. The frameworks adopted here consciously blend historical contextualisation, enduring concerns with wealth, power and interest, and the complex relationship between Northeast Asian states' evolving encounters with each other and with global international society.

Contents:

Part I Historical Similarities and Historical Opportunities

1 China and Japan: Historical Parallels versus a Narcissism of Small Differences p. 17

Structural Historical Parallels: Japan 1868-1945 and China 1978-Present p. 18

Deep Cultural Parallels p. 34

Contemporary Parallels p. 45

Opportunities and Obstacles p. 50

Part II Constructing History Collectively for Northeast Asia Since 1840

2 Confronting the China-Japan History Problem in Northeast Asia p. 55

History Problems p. 55

The Analytical Framework p. 62

3 Evaluating Northeast Asian History Collectively p. 73

Ridding Asia of Western Imperialism/Hegemony p. 73

Increasing the Absolute and Relative Wealth and Power of Asian States p. 79

Restoring Respect for Asian Nations and their Rightful Place in International Society p. 93

Promoting Respectful Relationships with their Neighbours on the Basis of Sovereign and Racial Equality p. 97

Promoting the Broadly Confucian Ideal of an Orderly, Peaceful, and Harmonious Domestic Society p. 109

Conclusions to Part II p. 127

Part III Negotiating a New Great Power Bargain: Contemporary Sino-Japanese Strategic Relations in Historical Context

4 Unpacking the Contemporary Strategic Problem in Northeast Asia p. 137

Memory and Order in Northeast Asia p. 137

The Great Power Bargain Framework p. 141

The Road to Alienation: Sino-Japanese Relations from the Nineteenth Century p. 146

5 No Bargains: Understanding Contemporary Sino-Japanese Strategic Relations p. 161

The Failure to Reach a Post-Cold War Constitutive Bargain p. 161

The Limited Post-Cold War Regulative Bargain p. 177

6 Re-visiting the Historical Context of Sino-Japanese Strategic Relations, 1400-1900 p. 197

Re-framing the Great Power Bargain for Historical Analysis p. 198

Case 1 Ashikaga-Ming Tribute and Tally Trade (c. 1400-53) p. 200

Case 2 Tokugawa Ieyasu's Attempts to Re-Open Relations with the Ming Dynasty (c. 1600-16) p. 206

Case 3 Tokugawa-Qing Trade Revival without Official Relations (c.1662-1800) p. 211

Case 4 Modern Treaties between Late Tokugawa/Meiji Japan and Qing China (c.1862-95) p. 216

Evolving Themes in Historical Sino-Japanese Great Power Bargains p. 228

7 Opportunities for a Great Power Bargain between China and Japan p. 238

Looking Forward: The Scenarios p. 240

Scenario 1 Renewed U.S. Ring-Holding p. 243

Scenario 2 G-2.1-A US-China Condominium p. 253

Scenario 3 G-2.2-A China-Japan Condominium p. 263

Scenario 4 Chinese Hegemony p. 277

Conclusions to the Book p. 294.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the William E. Lingelbach Fund.

ISBN:

9780198851394

9780198851387

0198851383

0198851391

OCLC:

1137197227

Publisher Number:

99984224483