The other great game : the opening of Korea and the birth of modern East Asia / Sheila Miyoshi Jager.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jager, Sheila Miyoshi, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Korea--Foreign relations--1864-1910.

Korea.

Korea--History--1864-1910.

Eurasia--History--19th century.

Eurasia.

Eurasia--History--20th century.

Eurasia--Relations.

East Asia--History.

East Asia.

East Asia--Foreign relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 602 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2023]

Summary:

Sheila Miyoshi Jager returns to the three-cornered contest among imperial Russia, China, and Japan over the Korean Peninsula. The battle to colonize Korea upended East Asian geopolitics, set great-power conflicts of the twentieth century in motion, and seeded internal rivalries that persist in the peninsula's division between North and South.

Contents:

New frontiers. Korea's Pyrrhic victory ; Japan's Korea problem ; The opening of Korea

Controlling barbarians with barbarians. China's Korea problem ; The other great game begins ; Russia's railway to the East

Wars and imperialism. Prelude to war ; Triumph, defeat, and a massacre ; Two-front war ; Triple intervention ; Continental power ; Maritime power ; Boxers ; Death of Li Hongzhang

New friends, old enemies. New agreements ; Russia's Korea problem ; The Russo-Japanese War : World War Zero. War for Korea ; War in Manchuria ; Mukden

New East Asian order. The Portsmouth Treaty and Korea ; "Eternal peace and security" in Asia ; Annexation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780674293496

0674293495

9780674293519

0674293517

OCLC:

1378932642