The Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 perceptions, power, and primacy
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 fo...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press
2003
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| Online Access: | Sumario |
| See on Universidad de Navarra: | https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991000910059708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es |
| 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 and aftershock of enduring territorial and political fault lines that have embroiled China, Japan, Korea, Russia and Taiwan ever since |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 412 p. : maps ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 379-401) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780521817141 |
