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The Origins of Contemporary Sino-Japanese Relations. Zhou Enlai and Japan.
Mayumi Itoh
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Description for The Origins of Contemporary Sino-Japanese Relations. Zhou Enlai and Japan.
Hardback. This book presents a comprehensive and in-depth examination of Zhou Enlai's childhood in Japan, where he learned about Marxism. Itoh analyzes primary sources to demonstrate how Zhou's experiences in Japan gave him a profound understanding of Japanese people and society that would become the foundation for contemporary Sino-Japanese relations. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1FPJ; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 455.
In this book, Mayumi Itoh presents a comprehensive and in-depth examination of China's first Premier Zhou Enlai's youth in Japan, where he received his enlightenment in Marxism from the Japanese scholar Kawakami Hajime. Itoh analyzes primary sources including diaries and letters to reveal the innermost thoughts of young Zhou about how to save China from total destruction by imperial powers, and demonstrate how Zhou's time in Japan gave him a profound understanding of the Japanese people and society. These formative experiences would become the foundation for post-World War II Chinese foreign policy toward Japan and the origins of contemporary Sino-Japanese ... Read more
In this book, Mayumi Itoh presents a comprehensive and in-depth examination of China's first Premier Zhou Enlai's youth in Japan, where he received his enlightenment in Marxism from the Japanese scholar Kawakami Hajime. Itoh analyzes primary sources including diaries and letters to reveal the innermost thoughts of young Zhou about how to save China from total destruction by imperial powers, and demonstrate how Zhou's time in Japan gave him a profound understanding of the Japanese people and society. These formative experiences would become the foundation for post-World War II Chinese foreign policy toward Japan and the origins of contemporary Sino-Japanese ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
243
Condition
New
Number of Pages
243
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137570390
SKU
V9781137570390
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99-15
About Mayumi Itoh
Mayumi Itoh is a former Professor of Political Science at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA. She has also taught at Princeton University, USA, and Queens College, CUNY, USA. She is the author of numerous books, including Globalization of Japan: Japanese Sakoku Mentality and U.S. Efforts to Open Japan and The Hatoyama Dynasty: Japanese Political Leadership Through ... Read more
Reviews for The Origins of Contemporary Sino-Japanese Relations. Zhou Enlai and Japan.
"Mayumi Itoh's The Origins of Contemporary Sino-Japanese Relations is a meticulous, scholarly study of Zhou Enlai's early years in China and his political awakening in Japan in the 1910s. Zhou, Mao's premier and foreign minister, was one of the most important political leaders of the 20th century, but little is known about how this young man seeking a post as ... Read more