The Other Great Game : : The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia / / Sheila Miyoshi Jager.

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• VerfasserIn: Jager, Sheila Miyoshi,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (560 p.)

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 As...

Table of Contents

• 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