Barbara J. Brooks. Japan's Imperial Diplomacy: Consuls, Treaty Ports, and War in China, 1895-1938.(Book Review)

From: China Review International | Date: September 22, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2000. xi, 213 pp. Paperback $27.95, ISBN 0-8248-2325-7.

For the book jacket of Barbara J. Brooks' Japan's Imperial Diplomacy, Akira Iriye of Harvard states that the author "has written a highly original study ... good diplomatic history." Both contentions are worthy of discussion here. The book in its current form is an expansion of the chapter "China Experts in the Galmusho, 1895-1937," published in 1989 in the monumental anthology The Japanese Informal Empire in China, 1895-1937, edited by Peter Duus, Ramon Myers, and Mark Peattie, yet ...

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