Americans in Eastern Asia (Classic Reprint): A Critical Study of the Policy of the United States With Reference to China, Japan and Korea in the 19th Century - Couverture souple

Dennett, Tyler

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330814703 ISBN 13 : 9781330814703

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

This is a careful study of how American policy in Asia originated and evolved in the 19th century, with China, Japan, and Korea at the center.

The book is based on original records and documentary sources, aiming to illuminate the origins and development of U.S. policy in Asia. It presents the human side of history, letting actors speak in their own words, and it examines a shared, cooperative approach to the Open Door idea from a Washington perspective. The author argues that cooperation—not isolation—shaped outcomes, while acknowledging that no nation escaped fault in the Far East question.

Across sessions from early diplomacy to the era of the Taiping Rebellion and the Open Door debates, the work surveys how policy was formed, pursued, and sometimes reversed by different powers. It follows figures such as Burlingame and the broader arc of American relations with China, Japan, and Korea, with attention to how competing interests and personalities affected cooperation.

• How American policy began and why cooperation mattered as much as territory or prestige.
• Key players, debates, and turning points in China, Japan, and Korea during the 19th century.
• The tension between isolation and collaboration among Western powers and Asian states.
• The enduring questions that shaped later East Asian diplomacy and policy.

Ideal for readers seeking historical context on U.S. East Asian policy and its lasting implications for international relations.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt from Americans in Eastern Asia: A Critical Study of the Policy of the United States With Reference to China, Japan and Korea in the 19th Century

The reader is entitled to some intimation as to what he may find in the following pages.

This is a study of the origin and development of American policy in Asia - in China, Japan, Korea, with passing attention to Siam, and the regions of the Indian and Pacific Oceans - in the 19th Century. It is an entirely fresh study, based on original records and documentary sources, the first book ever attempting to cover the entire field. In large measure the human interest and the peculiarly personal qualities of the record of Americans in Asia have been retained. The actors are permitted to speak for themselves in their own words.

The viewpoint is from Washington, not from Tokio, or Peking. American relations with the separate nations of the East, with the Japanese, the Chinese, the Koreans, have developed not separately but as a unity which the student disregards at his peril. There has not been one policy for one country and another policy for another. The policy has, in principle, been the same; the results of the policy were different because the peoples were different.

The tap-root of American policy has been not philanthropy but the demand for most-favored-nation treatment. One frequently meets the assumption that the Open Door Policy was invented by John Hay and first applied in 1899. The Open Door Policy is as old as our relations with Asia. It was pronounced in China as early as 1842, and the spirit of the policy is as old as the Declaration of Independence. The policy was not limited to China. It was enunciated on the coast of Africa in 1832, and was repeated in Japan and Korea many times before 1899.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330814703
• ISBN 13: 9781330814703
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 741
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible