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Prices and offers may vary in store. Kobo ebook. Japan and China have been rivals for more than a millennium.
In more recent times, China was the more powerful until the late nineteenth century, while Japan took the upper hand in the twentieth. Now, China's resurgence has emboldened it even as Japan perceives itself falling behind,exacerbating long-standing historical frictions.
June Teufel Dreyer's Middle Kingdom and Empire of the Rising Sun provides a highly accessible overview of one of the world's great civilizational rivalries. Dreyer, a senior scholar of East Asia, begins in the ninth century in order to provide a historical background for the main story: by themid-nineteenth century, the shrinking distances afforded by advances in technology and the intrusion of Western powers brought the two into closer proximity in ways that alternately united and divided them.
In the aftermath of multiple wars between them, including a long and brutal conflict in WorldWar II, Japan developed into an economic power but rejected any concomitant military capabilities. China's journey toward modernization was hindered by ideological and leadership struggles that lasted until the death of revolutionary leader Mao Zedong in Dreyer argues thatrecent disputes should be seen as manifestations of embedded rivalries rather than as issues whose resolution would provide a lasting solution to deep-standing disputes. For anyone interested in the political dynamics of East Asia, this integrative history of the relationship between the region'stwo giants is essential reading.
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Middle Kingdom and Empire of the Rising Sun and millions of other books are available for Amazon Kindle. In more recent times, China was the more powerful until the late nineteenth century, while Japan took the upper hand in the twentieth. June Teufel Dreyer's Middle Kingdom and. Middle Kingdom and Empire of the Rising Sun: Sino-Japanese. Relations, Past and Present by June Teufel Dreyer, and: Understanding Japan-China Relations: .
Tell Us Where You Are:. Preview Your Review. This, more than anything else, implies a strong buffering role for the US in the region. Were the US, as Donald Trump has suggested, to simply withdraw, then China and Japan face the very real possibility of clashing with each other.
And as this book testifies in great detail, years of history have shown that nothing, repeat nothing, good results when China and Japan fight each other. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.
Sign me up for email updates from Berkshire. Previous Next. Share Now, Choose Your Platform! About the Author: Kerry Brown. Brown is editor in chief of the four-volume Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese Biography and of the in-progress Berkshire Encyclopedia of China.
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