Competing Imperialisms in Northeast Asia: New Perspectives, 1894-1953

In the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, Japan, China, Tsarist Russia and later the USSR, vied for imperial dominance in Northeast Asia. They contested and adopted many of the physical and rhetorical features of Old-World imperialism, mitigated by domestic political forces and deeply ingrained cultural and historical values.

Aglaia De Angeli is a Senior Lecturer in the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics at Queen’s University Belfast, UK.

Peter Robinson is an Associate Professor in the Department of English, Japan Women’s University, Japan.

Peter O’Connor is an Emeritus Professor of Musashino University, Tokyo, Japan. In 2022-2023, he was a George Lyndon Hicks Fellow at the National Library of Singapore.

Emma Reisz is a Lecturer in the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics at Queen’s University Belfast, UK.

Tsuchiya Reiko is a Professor of Sociology and Media History at Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.