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Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Modernity and Marginalization: Describing Burakumin and Koreans in Meiji Japan -- Early Buraku and Korean Reactions: Modernity and Empire from the Margins -- Minorities and the Minority Problem in the 1920s: Th reats to State and Empire, and the Liberal Response -- Minority Activism and Identity Politics in the Age of Imperial Democracy -- The "Minority Problem" in Japan's "New Order": State Minority Policies and Mobilization for War -- Minorities in a Time of National Crisis: Burakumin and Koreans during Mobilization and War -- Interminority Relations, 1920–45: Movements and Communities -- Prejudice, Policy, and Proximity on the Margins of Empire -- Bibliography -- Index -- Harvard East Asian Monographs.

In the 1660s the renowned publishing company of Jacob van Meurs in Amsterdam published three richly illustrated monographs that fundamentally changed the European perceptions of the empires of China and Japan. It all started with the publication in 1665 of the travel notes and sketches that Joan Nieuhof had made ten years earlier, while travelling in the retinue of two Dutch envoys to the Manchu court in Peking. With no less than 150 copper prints, this book aroused so much interest in travel topics—it was published in Dutch, French, German, Latin, and English—that Van Meurs did not hesitate to launch a whole series of illustrated volumes about faraway countries. To keep the China lovers happy, he published a reprint of the richly illustratedChina Monumentisby the German Jesuit Athanasius Kircher. In 1668, another monumental illustrated work appeared in Dutch (and later also German, English and French editions) time about Africa written by the Amsterdam physician Olfert Dapper, and shortly afterwards, when that publication also proved to be a smashing success, Van Meurs asked for the right to publish two more works, one on Japan and one on China. That privilege was obtained on March 1669. The book on Japan,Gedenkwaerdige Gesantschappen der Oost-Indische Maetschappij aen de Kaisaren van Japan, or "Memorable embassies of the (Dutch) East India Company to the Emperors of Japan," was compiled by Arnoldus Montanus, a learned Dutch clergyman, who according to the preface had already published fifty-three monographs. The book on China was authored by Olfert Dapper, who this time edited the travelogues of the second and third Dutch embassies to China. What made these books so interesting is that they all were based on eyewitness accounts of the interior of the widely known but little explored empires of China and Japan by servants of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). The reason why it was possible for the Dutch merchants to travel where few other westerners had gone before was that they had been sent by the directors of the company as envoys bearing tribute presents to the rulers of both realms to secure privileged trading rights.

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In a fresh study of the Anglo-Japanese alliance, Heere examines how the British imperial system wrestled with Japan's unique status as an Asian power. Empire Ascendant combines the study of diplomacy with issues of cultural representation, race, migration, and inter-imperial relations.

"Provides new insights into the majority prejudices, social and political movements, and state policies that influenced the perceived positions of Koreans and Burakumin as "others" on the margins of the Japanese empire and also the minorities' views of themselves, their place in the nation, and the often strained relations between the two groups"--Provided by publisher

Collective security in Asia : the global significance of hong Kong and southern China -- Clearing the decks : preparing for war in South China, 1935 to July 1937 -- The Sino-Japanese War begins : proxy war in China, July 1937 to October 1938 -- The trap is sprung, October 1938 to March 1939 -- Stalemate, March to October 1939 -- Impasse in Kwangsi and Japan's failed interdiction strategy against Hong Kong, November 1939 to May 1940 -- Leveraging war and peace, May to December 1940 -- The triumph of collective security : Hong Kong, 1941 -- Empires derailed : the war in South China, September 1941 to January 1942 -- Collective insecurity : the demise of imperial power in Asia

Burkman, well-known scholar in Japanese inter-war diplomatic history, rightly points out that Japan's relationship with the League of Nations had long been remembered for its confrontations with that body, primarily 'the 1919 debates over racial equality and Shandong' and 'the 1931–33 League challenge to the Japanese seizure of Manchuria' (xi). The Japanese government formally communicated its withdrawal from the League on 27 March 1933, which came into effect two years later. Against this reading, his Japan and the League of Nations first aims to present 'a full picture' of Japan's relationship with the League, one that has a 'legitimate place in Japanese international history in the 1920s and the 1930s' (xi). It secondly questions the long unchallenged presumption that 'the League of Nations was a subordinate factor in Japanese foreign policy' (xii–xiii), and thirdly highlights a stream of Japanese inter-war internationalism which came to be revived in the post-war years (xi–xii).

'Toward the Rising Sun: Russian Ideologies of Empire and the Path to War with Japan' by David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye is reviewed.

This book offers a new perspective on the connected histories of Spain, China, and Japan as they emerged and developed following Manila's foundation as the capital of the Spanish Philippines in 1571. Examining a wealth of multilingual primary sources, Birgit Tremml-Werner shows that crosscultural encounters not only shaped Manila's development as a "Eurasian" port city, but also had profound political, economic, and social ramifications for the three premodern states. Combining a systematic comparison with a focus on specific actors during this period, this book addresses many long-held misconceptions and offers a more balanced and multifaceted view of these nations' histories.