Competing Imperialisms in Northeast Asia: New Perspectives, 1894-1953

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Japan, China, and both Tsarist Russia and later the USSR, vied for imperial dominance in Northeast Asia. In the process, they contested and at the same time adopted many of the physical and rhetorical features of Old-World imperialism, mitigated by domestic political forces and deeply ingrained cultural and historical values.

With chapters written by scholars from Europe and Asia, including Russia, this collection offers new international...