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China and Japan in the Global Setting (Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures)

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This book is an eloquently written, serious, and original set of lectures. The book will interest political scientists as much as historians or just simple readers ( as myself) because of its explicit orientation to " International history" . There is a highlight of very deep manipulation of the concepts of power, economy, and culture in order to explain why his three eras-late Meiji, interwar, and postwar differ from each other.
Well, is not a simple analysis, and is without spelling errors , not as some reviews about it.

Just like the other review above. This book was aweful. There were three chapters that werent really chapters at all. It was one long "history" book. I do not suggest this book to any East Asian History enthusiast. His facts were far and few between, and his facts were weak and could have been better. You could do far much better with a middle school history book.

This is a series of shoddy lectures (142) the author did and then had run off. It is a shallow thematic history on hte relations between China and japan with special emphasis on hte pre World War period. The guy is a historian of sorts and the global bit of the title is to hide just how shallow is his knowledge. Harvard have obviously little to do with their money if they publish weak drivel like this.