Building upon a previous study of Japan's colonial empire, this volume examines the period from 1895 to 1937 when Japan's economic, social, political, and military influence in China expanded so rapidly that it supplanted the influence of Western powers competing there. These fourteen essays discuss how Japan's "informal empire" emerged in China and how that "empire" influenced Japan's own internal development. "Describes in rich detail Japan's organization of a wide range of cultural, educational, economic, military, and bureaucratic institutions that formed the mainstays of Japanese influence in China along with the trading, manufacturing, intelligence-gathering, and political intriguing which they managed."--Wen-hsin Yeh, The Journal of Asian Studies
Originally published in 1989.
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*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Preface, pg. ix*Introduction.
Japan's Informal Empire in China, 1895-1937: An Overview, pg. xi*CHAPTER
1.
The Changing Pattern of Sino-Japanese Trade, 1884-1937, pg. 10*CHAPTER
2.
Japan's Big-Three Service Enterprises in China, 1896-1936, pg. 31*CHAPTER
3.
Zaikabo: Japanese Cotton Mills in China, 1895-1937, pg. 65*Chapter
4.
Japanese Imperiahsm in Manchuria: The South Manchuria Railway Company,
1906-1933, pg. 101*Chapter
5. Manchukuo and Economic Development, pg.
133*CHAPTER
6. Japanese Treaty Port Settlements in China, 1895-1937, pg.
166*CHAPTER
7. Training Young China Hands: Toa Dobun Shoin and Its
Precursors, 1886-1945, pg. 210*CHAPTER
8. The Foreign Ministry's Cultural
Agenda for China: The Boxer Indemnity, pg. 272*CHAPTER
9. Japanese
Industrialists and Merchants and the Anti-Japanese Boycotts in China,
1919-1928, pg. 314*CHAPTER
10. China Experts in the Army, pg. 330*CHAPTER
11.
China Experts in the Gaimusho, 1895-1937, pg. 369*CHAPTER
12. The Kwantung
Army Dimension, pg. 395*CHAPTER
13. Japanese Imperialism in China: A
Commentary, pg. 431*Contributors, pg. 439*Index, pg. 443
Peter Duus (19332022) was the William H. Bonsall Professor of History Emeritus at Stanford University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. Ramon H. Myers (19292015) was a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. Mark R. Peattie (19302014) was professor emeritus of history at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and a research fellow at the Hoover Institution.