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Title
Geopolitics and Asia’s Little Divergence: State Building in China and Japan After 1850
Creator
Creator Name
KOYAMA, Mark KOYAMA, Mark
Affiliation
Affiliation Name
George Mason University
Creator Name
MORIGUCHI, Chiaki MORIGUCHI, Chiaki
森口, 千晶 森口, 千晶
Affiliation
Affiliation Name
Hitotsubashi University
Creator Name
SNG, Tuan-Hwee SNG, Tuan-Hwee
Affiliation
Affiliation Name
National University of Singapore
Editor
Contributor Name
Hitotsubashi Institute for Advanced Study, Hitotsubashi University
Key Word
China
Japan
Geopolitics
State Capacity
Political Fragmentation
Political Centralization
Economic Modernization
Abstract
We provide a new framework to account for the diverging paths of political development in China and Japan during the late nineteenth century. The arrival of Western powers not only brought opportunities to adopt new technologies, but also fundamentally threatened the sovereignty of both countries. These threats and opportunities produce an unambiguous impetus toward centralization and modernization for small states, but place conflicting demands on larger states. We use our theory to study why China, which had been centralized for much of its history, experienced gradual disintegration upon the Western arrival, and how Japan rapidly unified and modernized.
Publisher
Hitotsubashi Institute for Advanced Study, Hitotsubashi University
Issued Date
2017-07
Language
English(eng)
Resource Type
technical report
Version Type
VoR
Is Part OfRelation -
Related Title
Discussion paper series ; No. HIAS-E-51
Number of Pages
42
Appears in Collections
Discussion paper series / Hitotsubashi Institute for Advanced Study, Hitotsubashi University
URL
https://hdl.handle.net/10086/28688