Deze auteur is een vooraanstaand historicus gespecialiseerd in Oost-Azië en Korea. Haar wetenschappelijke werk duikt in de ingewikkelde geschiedenis van de regio en analyseert de positie ervan in de wereld na de Koude Oorlog. Via haar boeken biedt ze diepgaande inzichten in de Koreaanse geschiedenis en de bredere context van Aziatische naties. De auteur biedt een origineel perspectief op belangrijke historische gebeurtenissen en hun impact.
Sheila Miyoshi Jager returns to the three-cornered contest among imperial Russia, China, and Japan over the Korean Peninsula. The battle to colonize Korea upended East Asian geopolitics, set great-power conflicts of the twentieth century in motion, and seeded internal rivalries that persist in the peninsula's division between North and South.
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