The Other Great Game - The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia [1 ed.] 9780674293496, 9780674293519, 9780674983397

A dramatic new telling of the dawn of modern East Asia, placing Korea at the center of a transformed world order wrought

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English Pages 624 Year 2023

The Other Great Game - The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia [1 ed.]
9780674293496, 9780674293519, 9780674983397

Sheila Miyoshi Jager returns to the three-cornered contest among imperial Russia, China, and Japan over the Korean Penin

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A dramatic new telling of the dawn of modern East Asia, placing Korea at the center of a transformed world order wrought

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JaHyun Kim Haboush offers a compelling counternarrative to Western historiography, which ties Korea's idea of natio

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China's rise has elicited envy, admiration, and fear among its neighbors. Although much has been written about this

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The growing political influence and economic might of the East Asian countries - China, Korea and Japan - makes a thorou

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Surveying histories of Korea written during the twentieth century, Henry H. Em examines how the project of national sove

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Making use of both documentary evidence and oral history, A Family of No Prominence addresses issues of identity, modern

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