Conflict and Amity in East Asia: Essays in Honour of Ian Nish

by T.G. Fraser (Editor), Peter Lowe (Editor)

Overview

This volume examines aspects of international relations in East Asia from 1895 to the present with particular reference to the role of Japan: the principal theme pursues the antecedents, nature, and consequences of the Pacific war (1941-5). The topics examined focus on the course of Japanese expansion, American-Japanese relations, Japanese reactions to war, the role of women during the conflicts in China and the Pacific, Anglo-American policies towards Japan, China, and Korea after 1945, Japanese-New Zealand relations, and Anglo-Japanese relations from the 1950s to the 1980s.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349121625
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/1992
Edition description:	1st ed. 1992
Pages:	190
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Preface - Acknowledgements - Notes on Contributers - The Sino-Japanese Commercial Treaty of 1896; W.G.Beasley - Tanaka Diplomacy and its Pro-British Orientation 1927-1929; H.Chihiro - The Road to Singapore: Japan's View of Britain 1922-1941; I.Kiyoshi - Culture in Japanese Foreign Affairs; A.Iriye - An Absence of Change: Women in the Japanese Labour Force, 1937-1945; J.Hunter - Wartime Japanese Planning: A Note on Akira Iriye; L.Allen - Roosevelt and the Making of America's Eastern Policy, 1941-1945; T.G.Fraser - A Particularly Vital Issue?: Harry Truman's Japan, 1945-1952; R.Buckley - Coming to Terms with Japan: New Zealand's Experience, 1945-1963; A.Trotter - Challenge and Readjustment: Anglo-American Exchanges over East Asia, 1949-1953; P.Lowe - Economic Relations between Great Britain and Japan since 1952: A Personal View; Sir H.Cortazzi - The Writings of Ian Nish - Notes - Index