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A New Modern History of East Asia (Vol Eckhardt Fuchs / Tokushi Kasahara / Sven Saaler (eds.): A New Modern History of East Asia (Vol. 1) Open-Access-Publikation im Sinne der CC-Lizenz BY-NC-ND 4.0 © 2018, V&R unipress GmbH, Göttingen ISBN Print: 9783847107088 – ISBN E-Lib: 9783737007085 Eckhardt Fuchs / Tokushi Kasahara / Sven Saaler (eds.): A New Modern History of East Asia (Vol. 1) Eckert. Expertise Georg-Eckert-Institut für internationale Schulbuchforschung Band 7 Herausgegeben von Eckhardt Fuchs Redaktion Ralf Kasper und Wendy Anne Kopisch Open-Access-Publikation im Sinne der CC-Lizenz BY-NC-ND 4.0 © 2018, V&R unipress GmbH, Göttingen ISBN Print: 9783847107088 – ISBN E-Lib: 9783737007085 Eckhardt Fuchs / Tokushi Kasahara / Sven Saaler (eds.): A New Modern History of East Asia (Vol. 1) Eckhardt Fuchs /Tokushi Kasahara / Sven Saaler (eds.) ANew Modern History of East Asia Volume 1 Edited by the Trilateral China-Japan-KoreaHistory Textbook Editorial Committee TranslatedbyMaya Ileto and Roger Prior With 70 figures V&Runipress Open-Access-Publikation im Sinne der CC-Lizenz BY-NC-ND 4.0 © 2018, V&R unipress GmbH, Göttingen ISBN Print: 9783847107088 – ISBN E-Lib: 9783737007085 Eckhardt Fuchs / Tokushi Kasahara / Sven Saaler (eds.): A New Modern History of East Asia (Vol. 1) Bibliografische Information der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek verzeichnet diese Publikation in der Deutschen Nationalbibliografie; detaillierte bibliografische Daten sind im Internet über http://dnb.d-nb.de abrufbar. 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Open-Access-Publikation im Sinne der CC-Lizenz BY-NC-ND 4.0 © 2018, V&R unipress GmbH, Göttingen ISBN Print: 9783847107088 – ISBN E-Lib: 9783737007085 Eckhardt Fuchs / Tokushi Kasahara / Sven Saaler (eds.): A New Modern History of East Asia (Vol. 1) Contents List of Tables and Figures ........................ 9 Preface to the English Edition ..................... 15 Preface of the Trilateral China-Japan-Korea History Textbook Editorial Committee ........................... 23 Foreword to the English Translation .................. 31 Note on Transliteration ......................... 33 Acknowledgments ............................ 35 Chapter 1: The Impact of the West and the Destabilizationofthe Traditional Order in East Asia ..................... 37 1. Political Transformations and Regional Order in East Asia in the Seventeenth Century ......................... 38 2. Aggression of the Western PowersinEast Asia .......... 51 3. East Asia’sReactiontothe West ................... 63 4. The Destabilizationofthe Regional Order in East Asia ...... 70 Timeline ................................. 86 Open-Access-Publikation im Sinne der CC-Lizenz BY-NC-ND 4.0 © 2018, V&R unipress GmbH, Göttingen ISBN Print: 9783847107088 – ISBN E-Lib: 9783737007085 Eckhardt Fuchs / Tokushi Kasahara / Sven Saaler (eds.): A New Modern History of East Asia (Vol. 1) 6 Contents Chapter 2: The FirstSino-Japanese War and the Dissolution of the Traditional Order in East Asia ..................... 87 1. Transformations in East Asia during the 1880s and the Korean Problem ................................ 88 2. The First Sino-Japanese War, 1894–95 ............... 99 3. The Treaty of Shimonoseki and Relations between China, Japan, and Korea ............................... 112 Timeline ................................. 127 Chapter 3: The Russo-Japanese War and the Struggle for Hegemony in East Asia ......................... 129 1. Rivalries among the PowersinEast Asia after the First Sino-Japanese War .......................... 130 2. Causes and Outcomes of the Russo-Japanese War ......... 139 3. The Treaty of Portsmouth...................... 150 4. Major Transformations in East Asia ................. 157 Timeline ................................. 172 Chapter 4: The FirstWorld War and the Washington System .... 173 1. The First World War and the Twenty-One Demands....... 174 2. The End of the Great War, Nationalist Movements in East Asia, and the Continuation of the Siberian Intervention ......... 186 3. The Formation and Decline of the Washington System ...... 197 Timeline ................................. 217 Chapter 5: East Asia and Japan’sWar of Aggression ......... 219 1. Japan’sInvasion of Manchuriaand the International Response. 220 2. All-Out War between Japan and China ............... 232 3. The Second World War and the Asia-Pacific War ......... 243 4. East Asia at the End of the Asia-Pacific War ............ 252 Timeline ................................. 265 Chapter 6: The Formation of the Cold War System and its Influence on East Asia ......................... 267 1. US and USSR Postwar Policies in East Asia and Changes in Japan 268 2. The Chinese Revolution and the Escalation of the Cold War ... 277 Open-Access-Publikation im Sinne der CC-Lizenz BY-NC-ND 4.0 © 2018, V&R unipress GmbH, Göttingen ISBN Print: 9783847107088 – ISBN E-Lib: 9783737007085 Eckhardt Fuchs / Tokushi Kasahara / Sven Saaler (eds.): A New Modern History of East Asia (Vol. 1) Contents 7 3. Partition and Waronthe Korean Peninsula............ 285 4. Intensification of the Cold War and the Non-Aligned Movement . 295 Timeline ................................. 312 Chapter 7: Transformations in the Cold War System in East Asia .. 313 1. Deepening of Sino-Soviet Hostility and Transformations in the East Asian Cold War ......................... 314 2. Revision of the US-Japan Security Treaty and the Conclusion of the Japan-South Korea Treaty on Basic Relations ......... 322 3. The Vietnam War and East Asia ................... 332 4. Detente and Changes in Relations between China, Japan, and South Korea .............................. 341 Timeline ................................. 360 Chapter 8: East Asia after the End of the Cold War .......... 361 1. East Asia and the End of the Cold War ............... 362 2. Globalization and Political Transformation in East Asia ..... 373 3. Economic Cooperation and Civil Interaction in East Asia ..... 387 4. Tasks for Peacebuilding in East Asia ................ 392 Timeline ................................. 407 The Authors of thisBook /Members of the Trilateral China-Japan-Korea History TextbookEditorial Committee ..... 409 Name Index ............................... 413 Place Index ................................ 419 Open-Access-Publikation im Sinne der CC-Lizenz BY-NC-ND 4.0 © 2018, V&R unipress GmbH, Göttingen ISBN Print: 9783847107088 – ISBN E-Lib: 9783737007085 Eckhardt Fuchs / Tokushi Kasahara / Sven Saaler (eds.): A New Modern History of East Asia (Vol. 1) Open-Access-Publikation im Sinne der CC-Lizenz BY-NC-ND 4.0 © 2018, V&R unipress GmbH, Göttingen ISBN Print: 9783847107088 – ISBN E-Lib: 9783737007085 Eckhardt Fuchs / Tokushi Kasahara / Sven Saaler (eds.): A New Modern History of East Asia (Vol. 1) List of Tables and Figures Figure 1: Circulation of silver in the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Figure 2: Trade factories in eighteenth-century Canton. Courtesy of the Korean TextbookEditorial Committee. Figure 3: The First and Second Opium Wars. Figure 4: Article about Commodore Perry’sexpedition to Japanfrom the Illustrated London News. Source:private collection. Figure 5: The Western Powers’ encroachment into the Korean peninsula. Figure 6: Aweaponsfactory in Nanjing founded in 1865. Courtesy of the Korean TextbookEditorial Committee. Figure 7: The key figures in the IwakuraMission. Source:CharlesLanmen, The Japanese inAmerica (1872),courtesy of Yamaguchi Prefectural Archives. Figure 8: Japanese troops duringthe invasion of Taiwan. Source: Saigototoku to Kabayama Sukenori (1936). Figure 9: The Battle of Ganghwa. Source: Meiji taiheiki,vol. 11/1 (1876). Figure 10:The central actors of the Gapsin Coup. Courtesy of the Korean Text- book Editorial Committee. Figure 11:Image of the conference held to revise the unequal treaties. Foreign MinisterInoue Kaoru is announcing Japan’spolicy to variousforeign ambassadors. Source:Monbusho¯ ,Ko¯ t o¯ sho¯ gaku kokushi, gekan,1929, p. 124. Open-Access-Publikation im Sinne der CC-Lizenz BY-NC-ND 4.0 © 2018, V&R unipress GmbH, Göttingen ISBN Print: 9783847107088 – ISBN E-Lib: 9783737007085 Eckhardt Fuchs / Tokushi Kasahara / Sven Saaler (eds.): A New Modern History of East Asia (Vol. 1) 10 List of Tables and Figures Figure 12: “Fishing,” by Georges Bigot, in Tobae, February15, 1887.Source:pri- vate collection. Figure 13:The leader of the Donghak peasant revolution, Jeon Bong-jun. Courtesy of the Korean Textbook Editorial Committee. Figure 14:The Sino-JapaneseWar. Figure 15:The massacreatLushun (Port Arthur), as photographed by Count Kamei Koreaki. Source: Meiji 27–8nen sen’eki shashincho (1907). Figure 16:The signing of the Shimonoseki Treaty. Courtesy of the Korean Text-
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