Peter Duus

The Japanese Informal Empire in China, 1895-1937 - Princeton Legacy Library Peter Duus

Publisher Marketing: Building upon a previous study of Japan's colonial empire, this volume examines the period from 1895 to 1937 when Japan's economic, social, political, and military influence in China expanded so rapidly that it supplanted the influence of Western powers competing there. These fourteen essays discuss how Japan's "informal empire" emerged in China and how that "empire" influenced Japan's own internal development. "Describes in rich detail Japan's organization of a wide range of cultural, educational, economic, military, and bureaucratic institutions that formed the mainstays of Japanese influence in China along with the trading, manufacturing, intelligence-gathering, and political intriguing which they managed."--Wen-hsin Yeh, The Journal of Asian StudiesOriginally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contributor Bio:  Duus, Peter Peter Duus is William H. Bonsall Professor of History at Stanford University. He is author of "Feudalism in Japan, " (2nd ed. 1993), editor of "The Cambridge History of Japan" Vol. 6 (1989), and coeditor of "The Japanese Informal Empire in Japan, 1895-1937" (1991). Contributor Bio:  Myers, Ramon H Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and also curator of the East Asian archives. Contributor Bio:  Peattie, Mark R Mark R. Peattie is professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts at Boston and a research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. He is the author of several books including, Sunburst: The Rise of Japanese Naval Air Power, 1909-1941.