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Book SynopsisBuilding upon a previous study of Japan's colonial empire, this volume examines the period from 1895 to 1937 when Japan's economic, social, political, and military influence in China expanded so rapidly that it supplanted the influence of Western powers competing there. These fourteen essays discuss how Japan's "informal empire" emerged in China an
Table of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Preface, pg. ix*Introduction. Japan's Informal Empire in China, 1895-1937: An Overview, pg. xi*CHAPTER 1. The Changing Pattern of Sino-Japanese Trade, 1884-1937, pg. 10*CHAPTER 2. Japan's Big-Three Service Enterprises in China, 1896-1936, pg. 31*CHAPTER 3. Zaikabo: Japanese Cotton Mills in China, 1895-1937, pg. 65*Chapter 4. Japanese Imperiahsm in Manchuria: The South Manchuria Railway Company, 1906-1933, pg. 101*Chapter 5. Manchukuo and Economic Development, pg. 133*CHAPTER 6. Japanese Treaty Port Settlements in China, 1895-1937, pg. 166*CHAPTER 7. Training Young China Hands: Toa Dobun Shoin and Its Precursors, 1886-1945, pg. 210*CHAPTER 8. The Foreign Ministry's Cultural Agenda for China: The Boxer Indemnity, pg. 272*CHAPTER 9. Japanese Industrialists and Merchants and the Anti-Japanese Boycotts in China, 1919-1928, pg. 314*CHAPTER 10. China Experts in the Army, pg. 330*CHAPTER 11. China Experts in the Gaimusho, 1895-1937, pg. 369*CHAPTER 12. The Kwantung Army Dimension, pg. 395*CHAPTER 13. Japanese Imperialism in China: A Commentary, pg. 431*Contributors, pg. 439*Index, pg. 443
