The Other Great Game - The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia

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.

About the author

Sheila Miyoshi Jager is the author of Brothers at War: The Unending Conflict in Korea and Narratives of Nation-Building in Korea: The Genealogy of Patriotism. A specialist on modern East Asian and Korean history and politics, she has written for the New York Times, Politico, and the Boston Globe. She is Professor of East Asian Studies at Oberlin College.

Product details

• Authors: Jager Sheila Miyoshi
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 03.02.2026
• EAN: 9780674303485
• ISBN: 978-0-674-30348-5
• Illustrations: 31 photos, 14 maps, Karten
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Japan, China, Korea, Russia, HISTORY / Military / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Geopolitics, HISTORY / World, military history, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, HISTORY / Asia / China, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, HISTORY / Asia / Korea, Colonialism & imperialism, Colonialism and imperialism, Asian History, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, History of other geographical groupings and regions, History of other lands, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Soviet