The Other Great Game : The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia / Sheila Miyoshi Jager.
Jager, Sheila Miyoshi, author.
2023
DS910.18 .J34 2023
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Title
The Other Great Game : The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia / Sheila Miyoshi Jager.
Author
Jager, Sheila Miyoshi, author.
ISBN
9780674293519
DOI
https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674293519
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2023]
Copyright
©2023
Language
English
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In English.
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1 online resource (560 p.)
Item Number
10.4159/9780674293519 doi
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DS910.18 .J34 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification
327.51905
Summary
A dramatic new telling of the dawn of modern East Asia, placing Korea at the center of a transformed world order wrought by imperial greed and devastating wars.In the nineteenth century, Russia participated in two "great games": one, well known, pitted the tsar's empire against Britain in Central Asia. The other, hitherto unrecognized but no less significant, saw Russia, China, and Japan vying for domination of the Korean Peninsula. In this eye-opening account, brought to life in lucid narrative prose, Sheila Miyoshi Jager argues that the contest over Korea, driven both by Korean domestic disputes and by great-power rivalry, set the course for the future of East Asia and the larger global order.When Russia's eastward expansion brought it to the Korean border, an impoverished but strategically located nation was wrested from centuries of isolation. Korea became a prize of two major imperial conflicts: the Sino-Japanese War at the close of the nineteenth century and the Russo-Japanese War at the beginning of the twentieth. Japan's victories in the battle for Korea not only earned the Meiji regime its yearned-for colony but also dislodged Imperial China from centuries of regional supremacy. And the fate of the declining tsarist empire was sealed by its surprising military defeat, even as the United States and Britain sized up the new Japanese challenger.A vivid story of two geopolitical earthquakes sharing Korea as their epicenter, The Other Great Game rewrites the script of twentieth-century rivalry in the Pacific and enriches our understanding of contemporary global affairs, from the origins of Korea's bifurcated identity-a legacy of internal politics amid the imperial squabble-to China's irredentist territorial ambitions and Russia's nostalgic dreams of recovering great-power status.
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Frontmatter
CONTENTS
List of Maps
Note on Romanization, Names, and Dates
Preface
Prologue: The Rise of Russia in Asia
I. NEW FRONTIERS
Introduction
1. Korea's Pyrrhic Victory
2. Japan's Korea Problem
3. The Opening of Korea
II. CONTROLLING BARBARIANS WITH BARBARIANS
Introduction
4. China's Korea Problem
5. The Other Great Game Begins
6. Russia's Railway to the East
III. WARS AND IMPERIALISM
Introduction
7. Prelude to War
8. Triumph, Defeat, and a Massacre
9. Two-Front War
10. Triple Intervention
11. Continental Power
12. Maritime Power
13. Boxers
14. The Death of Li Hongzhang
IV. NEW FRIENDS, OLD ENEMIES
Introduction
15. New Agreements
16. Russia's Korea Problem
V. THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR-WORLD WAR ZERO
Introduction
17. War for Korea
18. War in Manchuria
19. Mukden
VI. NEW EAST ASIAN ORDER
Introduction
20. The Portsmouth Treaty and Korea
21. "Eternal Peace and Security in Asia"
22. Annexation
Epilogue: Legacies
Abbreviations
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

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