Russia and Its Northeast Asian Neighbors (eBook)

China, Japan, and Korea, 1858-1945

Kimitaka Matsuzato (Herausgeber)

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2016
222 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-3705-6 (ISBN)

Infos

This edited collection analyzes relations between Russia and the states of Northeast Asia from the mid-nineteenth century to the end of World War II. The contributors examine various historical, cultural, and diplomatic developments and argue that Russia’s influential role in Northeast Asia has often been underestimated by scholars.

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As a result of the Aigun (1858) and Beijing Treaties (1860) Russia had become a participant in international relations of Northeast Asia, but historiography has underestimated the presence of Russia and the USSR in this region. This collection elucidates how Russia's expansion affected early Meiji Japan's policy towards Korea and the late Qing Empire's Manchurian reform. Russia participated in the mega-imperial system of transportation and customs control in Northern China and created a transnational community around the Chinese Eastern Railway and Harbin City. The collection vividly describes daily life of the emigre Russians' community in Harbin after 1917. The collection investigates mutual images between the Russians and Japanese through the prism of the descriptions of the Japanese Imperial House in Russian newspapers and memoirs written by Russian POWs in and after the Russo-Japanese War and war journalism during this war. The first Soviet ambassador in Japan, V. Kopp, proposed to restore the division of spheres of interest between Russia and Japan during the tsarist era and thus conflicted People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs, G. Chicherin, the Soviet ambassador in Beijing, L. Karakhan, and Stalin, since the latter group was more loyal to the cause of China's national liberation. As a whole, the collection argues that it is difficult to understand the modern history of Northeast Asia without taking the Russian factor seriously.

Autor

Kimitaka Matsuzato is professor at the University of Tokyo.

Inhalt

Introduction, Kimitaka MatsuzatoExplanatory NotesMapChapter 1: Russia’s Expansion to the Far East and Its Impact on Early Meiji Japan’s Korea Policy, Shinichi FumotoChapter 2: The Russian Factor Facilitating the Administrative Reform in Qing Manchuria in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, Susumu TsukaseChapter 3: Imperial Ambitions: Russians, Britons and the Politics of Nationality in the Chinese Customs Service, 1890–1937, Catherine LaddsChapter 4: Development of Trade on the Amur and the Sungari and the Customs Problem in the Last Years of the Russian Empire, Yukimura SakonChapter 5: Making a Vancouver in the Far East: “The Trinity Transportation System” of the Chinese Eastern Railway, 1896–1917, Masafumi AsadaChapter 6: Japanese–Russian Kulturkampf in the Far East, 1904–5: Organization, Methods, Ideas, Dmitrii B. PavlovChapter 7: Captured or Captivated? The War against Japan (1904–5) in the Memories of Russian POWs, Andreas RennerChapter 8: From the Meiji Emperor's Funeral to the Taisho Emperor's Coronation: Reporting the Japanese Imperial System in the Russian Press, Yoshiro IkedaChapter 9: Two Russias in Harbin: The Émigré Community and the Soviet Colony, Michiko IkutaChapter 10: V. L. Kopp and Soviet Policy towards Japan after the Basic Convention of 1925:Moscow and Tokyo’s Failed “Honeymoon”?, Yaroslav Shulatov

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.12.2016
• Co-Autor: Masafumi Asada, Yaroslav Shulatov, Susumu Tsukase, Shinichi Fumoto, Yoshiro Ikeda, Michiko Ikuta, Catherine Ladds, Kimitaka Matsuzato, Dmitrii B. Pavlov, Andreas Renner, Yukimura Sakon
• Zusatzinfo: 10 Illustrations including: - 4 Maps; - 6 Tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Schlagworte: China • Customs control • Dalian • Harbin • Jappan • Korea • Manchuria • Northeast Asia • Qing Empire • Russia • Russo-Japanese war • Sungari River
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-3705-7 / 1498537057
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-3705-6 / 9781498537056