What forces were behind Japan's emergence as the first non-Western colonial power at the turn of the twentieth century? Peter Duus brings a new perspective to Meiji expansionism in this pathbreaking study of Japan's acquisition of Korea, the largest of its colonial possessions. He shows how Japan's drive for empire was part of a larger goal to become the economic, diplomatic, and strategic equal of the Western countries who had imposed a humiliating treaty settlement on the country in the 1850s. Duus maintains that two separate but interlinked processes, one political/military and the other economic, propelled Japan's imperialism. Every attempt at increasing Japanese political influence licensed new opportunities for trade, and each new push for Japanese economic interests buttressed, and sometimes justified, further political advances. The sword was the servant of the abacus, the abacus the agent of the sword. While suggesting that Meiji imperialism shared much with the Western colonial expansion that provided both model and context, Duus also argues that it was 'backward imperialism' shaped by a sense of inferiority vis-a-vis the West. Along with his detailed diplomatic and economic history, Duus offers a unique social history that illuminates the motivations and lifestyles of the overseas Japanese of the time, as well as the views that contemporary Japanese had of themselves and their fellow Asians.
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The case analysis on the Japanese Oriental Development Company is particularly revealing of how market penetration and debt traps were deployed to colonize the rice trade and Korean landlords.
评分The case analysis on the Japanese Oriental Development Company is particularly revealing of how market penetration and debt traps were deployed to colonize the rice trade and Korean landlords.
评分清日受制于均势外交和代理人战争，日本至今不懂自强在于互保。明治初代政治家失势于清、俄两战后，至今政才萧条。与不堪用的当局合作，清失韩如美失中，日终兼并，如张謇之策，推广为大陆政策则败。伊藤的软实力战略效率更高，今日美帝亦于此痛定思痛。后半部把殖民统治的沿革交待得很清晰，可参。
评分清日受制于均势外交和代理人战争，日本至今不懂自强在于互保。明治初代政治家失势于清、俄两战后，至今政才萧条。与不堪用的当局合作，清失韩如美失中，日终兼并，如张謇之策，推广为大陆政策则败。伊藤的软实力战略效率更高，今日美帝亦于此痛定思痛。后半部把殖民统治的沿革交待得很清晰，可参。
评分清日受制于均势外交和代理人战争，日本至今不懂自强在于互保。明治初代政治家失势于清、俄两战后，至今政才萧条。与不堪用的当局合作，清失韩如美失中，日终兼并，如张謇之策，推广为大陆政策则败。伊藤的软实力战略效率更高，今日美帝亦于此痛定思痛。后半部把殖民统治的沿革交待得很清晰，可参。
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