Competing Imperialisms in Northeast Asia

Aglaia De Angeli is a Senior Lecturer in the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics at Queen’s University Belfast, UK. Peter Robinson is an Associate Professor in the Department of English, Japan Women’s University, Japan. Peter O’Connor is an Emeritus Professor of Musashino University, Tokyo, Japan. In 2022-2023, he was a George Lyndon Hicks Fellow at the National Library of Singapore. Emma Reisz is a Lecturer in the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics at Queen’s University Belfast, UK. Tsuchiya Reiko is a Professor of Sociology and Media History at Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.

Table of Contents

Foreword

(Peter O’Connor)

Introduction

(Aglaia De Angeli and Peter Robinson)

Part I: Imperialism in Northeast Asia: drivers and structures

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

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