The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia by Jager, Sheila Miyoshi
The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia by Jager, Sheila Miyoshi

The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia

Winner of the Duke of Wellington Medal for Military History, this dramatic new account of the dawn...
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Author: Sheila Miyoshi Jager
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia by Jager, Sheila Miyoshi

The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia

$35.94
The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia by Jager, Sheila Miyoshi

The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia

$35.94
Author: Sheila Miyoshi Jager
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description

Winner of the Duke of Wellington Medal for Military History, this dramatic new account of the dawn of modern East Asia places Korea at the center of a transformed world order wrought by imperial greed and devastating wars.

In the nineteenth century, Russia participated in two "great games." One, well known, pitted the tsar's empire against Britain in Central Asia. The other, hitherto unrecognized, saw Russia, China, and Japan vying for domination of Korea. This eye-opening account argues that the contest over Korea set the course for the future of the global order.

After centuries of isolation, Korea became a prize in the Sino-Japanese War at the close of the nineteenth century and the Russo-Japanese War at the beginning of the twentieth. Japan's victories not only gained the Meiji regime a colony but also dislodged Imperial China from regional supremacy. As the fate of the declining tsarist empire was sealed by its surprising military defeat, the United States and Britain sized up the new Japanese challenger.

A vivid story of two geopolitical earthquakes sharing Korea as their epicenter, The Other Great Game rewrites the script of twentieth-century rivalry in the Pacific and enriches our understanding of contemporary global affairs, from the origins of Korea's bifurcated identity--a legacy of internal politics amid the imperial squabble--to China's irredentist ambitions and Russia's nostalgic dreams of recovering great-power status.

Author: Sheila Miyoshi Jager
Publisher: Belknap Press
Published: 03/24/2026
Pages: 624
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.10lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.90w x 1.80d
ISBN: 9780674303485

About the Author
Jager, Sheila Miyoshi: - Sheila Miyoshi Jager is the author of Brothers at War: The Unending Conflict in Korea and Narratives of Nation-Building in Korea: The Genealogy of Patriotism. A specialist on modern East Asian and Korean history and politics, she has written for the New York Times, Politico, and the Boston Globe. She is Professor of East Asian Studies at Oberlin College.
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