Collected Writings of Ian Nish: Part 2: Japanese Political History - Japan and East Asia

by Nish; Ian

• ISBN13: 9781903350096
• ISBN10: 1903350093
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-01-07
• Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon

Summary

This volume of theCollected Writings of Modern Western Scholars on Japanbrings together the work of Ian Nish on international relations affecting Japan, Russia, China and Korea in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(10)
PART I: NINETEENTH CENTURY AND AFTER
An East India Merchant House in the China Trade in the 1830s	11	(10)
British Mercantile Cooperation in the Indo-China Trade from the End of the East India Company's Trading Monopoly	21	(17)
Ito Hirobumi's Overseas Sojourns: Europe's Growing Admiration for Meiji Statesmanship in Europe	38	(9)
Japan's Modernization and Anglo-German Rivalry in the 1880s	47	(17)
Japan and European Brinkmanship, 1895	64	(8)
The Royal Navy and the Taking of Weihaiwei, 1898--1905	72	(16)
John McLeavy Brown in Korea, 1893--1905	88	(15)
Korea: Focus of Russo-Japanese Diplomacy, 1898--1903	103	(16)
Politics, Trade and Communications in East Asia: Thoughts on Anglo-Russian Relations, 1861--1907	119	(14)
PART II: BETWEEN THE WARS
A Spy in Manchuria -- Ishimitsu Makiyo	133	(6)
Dr G. E. Morrison and the Portsmouth Peace Conference, 1905	139	(10)
Japanese Intelligence, 1894--1922	149	(17)
The Washington Conference of 1921--2	166	(7)
Diplomats in Japan	173	(6)
Sir George Sansom, Diplomat and Historian	179	(21)
`Anglo-Japanese Alienation' Revisited	200	(19)
PART III: THE MANCHURIAN CRISIS AND AFTER
An Overview of Relations between China and Japan, 1895--1945	219	(24)
Japan and the First Manchurian Crisis of 1929	243	(8)
Japanese Military Intelligence on the Eve of the Manchurian Crisis	251	(6)
Germany, Japan and the Manchurian Crisis: Dr Heinrich Schnee and the Lytton Commission	257	(13)
Jousting with Authority: The Tokyo Embassy of Sir Francis Lindley, 1931--4	270	(14)
The Showa Emperor and the end of the Manchurian Crisis	284	(11)
The Uncertainties of Isolation: Japan Between the Wars	295	(15)
Conflicting Japanese Loyalties in Manchuria	310	(16)
Britain's View of the Japanese Economy in the Early Showa Period	326	(13)
Japan and Australia Between the Wars	339	(15)
Yoshida Shigeru and Madame Yoshida at the London Embassy	354	(15)
PART IV: THE APPROACH OF WAR AND THE WAR YEARS
The Greater East Asian Co-prosperity Sphere	369	(18)
Nationalism in Japan	387	(9)
Japan and the Outbreak of War in 1941	396	(18)
Japanese Civilians in War	414	(11)
Preparing for Peace and Survival: The Japanese Experience, 1943--46	425	(14)
Bibliography (see Collected Writings of Ian Nish, Part One)
Index	439