Competing Imperialisms in Northeast Asia

Table of Contents

Foreword

(Peter O'Connor)

Introduction

(Aglaia De Angeli and Peter Robinson)

Part I: Imperialism in Northeast Asia: drivers and structures

(Saito Eiri, Christopher W. A. Szpilman, Tsuchiya Reiko)

Chapter 1: The Role of the Internal Colony in Empire and Imperialism: Japan and Britain Compared, by Saito Eiri.

Chapter 2: Social Darwinism as a Factor in Japanese Territorial Expansion, 1914-1941, by Christopher W. A. Szpilman.

Chapter 3: Media and Imperialism in International Press Conferences in the Early 20th Century, by Tsuchiya Reiko.

Part II: Imperial rivalries and questions of territoriality: Russia and Japan in Northeast Asia (Sherzod Muminov, Alexander Titov, Kobayashi Akina, Yaroslav Shulatov, Denis G. Yanchenko)

Chapter 4: Reconsidering Japan's Preoccupation with Soviet Power in East Asia, 1917-1937, by Sherzod Muminov.

Chapter 5: National appropriation of imperial lands in Northeast Asia, by Alexander Titov.

Chapter 6: From Japanese militarism to Soviet communism: The 'change of heart' of Japanese POWs through Soviet indoctrination, by Kobayashi Akina.

Chapter 7: The Key Rivalry: Russo-Japanese Relations and International Order in Northeast Asia, 1895-1945, by Yaroslav Shulatov.

Chapter 8: Government of Nicholas II and economy of the Far East in Russian archival materials, by Denis Yanchenko.

Part III: Imperialism and society: actors and victims, migrants and the dispossessed
(Rachel Lin, Cho Mikwi, Peter O'Connor, Nikita Kovrigin)

Chapter 9: "We are on the Brink of Disaster": Revolution, War and Imperial Conflict in Blagoveshchensk-Heihe, by Yuexin Rachel Lin.

Chapter 10: Subversive or Ambitious?: Migration of Korean Students to the Metropole and the Response of the Empire, 1910-1933, by Cho Mikwi.

Chapter 11: Compradors of Opinion: Irish Adventurers on the Road to Systemic Change in Northeast Asia, 1916-1949, by Peter O'Connor.

Chapter 12: Shaping Chinese Communities in Japan and Russia: The Role of Political Factors, by Nikita Kovrigin.

Part IV: Visualizing competing imperialisms
(Peter Robinson, Aglaia De Angeli)

Chapter 13: Picturing Imperialisms in North-East Asia: Illustrations for The Times's Japanese and Russian Supplements, 1910-1917, by Peter Robinson.

Chapter 14: Competing imperialisms in Manchuria: Mapping a contested and disputed territory, by Aglaia De Angeli.