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URL:https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/imperial-crossroads-britain-an
 d-united-states-far-east-1853-1945/
SUMMARY:Imperial Crossroads: Britain and the United States in the Far East\
 , 1853-1945
DESCRIPTION:\n	Ahn Doohwan (Assistant Professor\, Department of Politics an
 d International Relations\, Seoul National University\; HYI Visiting Schol
 ar and Radcliffe Fellow in Residence)\n\n	Chair/discussant: David Armitage
  (Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History\, Harvard University)\n\n	 \n\n
 	Co-sponsored with the Asia Center\n\n	 \n\n\n	With the remarkable rise o
 f China as a global economic and military superpower\, challenging the wor
 ld leadership of the United States\, the question of imperial transition h
 as once again come to the fore. Yet the peaceful transition of power from 
 Great Britain to the United States in the early twentieth century has by a
 nd large escaped analysis. It is still widely regarded as a rare exception
  in the history of hegemonic shifts. The purpose of this talk is not only 
 to challenge the prevalent myth of the so-called “special relationship
 ” between Great Britain and the United States built largely upon the com
 mon Anglo-Saxon heritage\, but more importantly\, to call attention to the
 ir prolonged struggle for supremacy in the Far East\, starting from the Pe
 rry Expedition to the conclusion of the Pacific War. The “Scramble for C
 hina” has been extensively studied from various perspectives. But little
  scholarly attention appears to have been paid to Anglo-American “compet
 itive cooperation”\, to borrow David Reynold’s phrase\, in the region.
  While much of the previous research on great power rivalry in East Asia h
 as concentrated on Britain’s deepening strategic conundrum\, the expansi
 on of the Japanese Empire first into the Korean peninsula\, then Manchuria
 \, and finally the Chinese mainland\, or the violent replacement of the tr
 aditional regional order by the Westphalian state system\, this talk aims 
 to retell the story through the prism of the Anglo-American hegemonic tran
 sition. 
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