Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps
- Acknowledgments
- Part I The Clash of Two Orders: The Far East on the Eve of the War
- Part II The War: The Dividing Line Between Two Eras
- Part III The Settlement: The Modern Era in Far Eastern Diplomacy
- Epilogue: Perceptions, Power, and War
- Bibliographic Essay
- Bibliography
- Index
Part II - The War: The Dividing Line Between Two Eras
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 January 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps
- Acknowledgments
- Part I The Clash of Two Orders: The Far East on the Eve of the War
- Part II The War: The Dividing Line Between Two Eras
- Part III The Settlement: The Modern Era in Far Eastern Diplomacy
- Epilogue: Perceptions, Power, and War
- Bibliographic Essay
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
We have hitherto been favoured with one Eastern question [the crumbling Ottoman Empire], which we have always endeavoured to lull as something too portentous for our imagination, but of late a Far Eastern question has been superadded, which, I confess, to my apprehension is, in the dim vistas of futurity, infinitely graver than even that question of which we have hitherto known.
Prime Minister Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Roseberry, 1895This at least I can tell you for certain, we neither can nor will leave Korea again until our aim has been attained in one way or another. We are fighting in Korea for our own future – I might also say for our independence. Once let Korea fall into the hands of a European power, and our independence will be threatened.
Japanese diplomat in Europe, July 25, 1894- Type
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- The Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895Perceptions, Power, and Primacy, pp. 107 - 108Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2002