The Russo-Japanese Conflict: Its Causes and Issues (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Korea, Manchuria, and Meiji Diplomacy in the Origins of the 1904–05 WarBy Kan'ichi Asakawa
Length12h 45m
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The Russo-Japanese Conflict: Its Causes and Issues is a lucid, documentary account of the diplomatic tensions that culminated in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–05. Asakawa examines Korea, Manchuria, treaty obligations, Russian expansion, and Japan's security concerns with a jurist's precision and a historian's command of evidence. Written in a restrained, analytical prose, the book belongs to the early twentieth-century literature of international relations, where imperial rivalry, legal argument, and national self-determination uneasily intersect. Kan'ichi Asakawa, a Japanese historian educated in Japan and the United States and later associated with Yale University, was unusually positioned to interpret Japan's case for an English-reading audience. His scholarship in medieval Japanese institutions and his familiarity with Western historiographical methods inform the book's careful use of sources. Asakawa's transpacific intellectual life helps explain both his sympathy for Japan's strategic predicament and his effort to argue through documents rather than mere patriotic assertion. This volume is recommended to readers interested in diplomatic history, East Asian geopolitics, and the origins of modern Japanese power. Though shaped by its moment, it remains valuable for understanding how Japan justified its actions and how international law was invoked amid imperial competition.
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GenreHistory
Length12 hrs 45 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 30, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Russo-Japanese Conflict: Its Causes and Issues (Annotated)
2INTRODUCTION
3PREFACE
4INTRODUCTORY
5SOME OF THE ISSUES OF THE CONFLICT
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6CHAPTER I RETROCESSION OF THE LIAO-TUNG PENINSULA
7CHAPTER II THE “CASSINI CONVENTION” AND THE RAILWAY AGREEMENT
8CHAPTER III KIAO-CHAU
9CHAPTER IV PORT ARTHUR AND TALIEN-WAN
10CHAPTER V SECRETARY HAY’S CIRCULAR NOTE
11CHAPTER VI THE OCCUPATION OF MANCHURIA
12CHAPTER VII NORTH CHINA AND MANCHURIA
13CHAPTER VIII THE ANGLO-GERMAN AGREEMENT
14CHAPTER IX A MODUS VIVENDI : THE ALEXIEFF-TSÊNG AGREEMENT
15CHAPTER X A “STARTING-POINT”—THE LAMSDORFF-YANG-YU CONVENTION
16CHAPTER XI FURTHER DEMANDS
17CHAPTER XII THE ANGLO-JAPANESE AGREEMENT AND THE RUSSO-FRENCH DECLARATION
18CHAPTER XIII THE CONVENTION OF EVACUATION
19“AGREEMENT BETWEEN RUSSIA AND CHINA RESPECTING MANCHURIA
20CHAPTER XIV THE EVACUATION
21CHAPTER XV DEMANDS IN SEVEN ARTICLES
22CHAPTER XVI DIPLOMATIC STRUGGLE IN KOREA, I
23CHAPTER XVII DIPLOMATIC STRUGGLE IN KOREA, II
24CHAPTER XVIII THE RUSSO-JAPANESE NEGOTIATIONS, I
25CHAPTER XIX THE RUSSO-JAPANESE NEGOTIATIONS, II
26CHAPTER XX CHINESE NEUTRALITY AND KOREAN INTEGRITY (pt. 1)
27CHAPTER XX CHINESE NEUTRALITY AND KOREAN INTEGRITY (pt. 2)
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