Islands between empires: the Ryukyu Shobun in Japanese and American expansion in the pacific

IF 1.7 2区社会学 Q1 AREA STUDIES

Critical Asian Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-02 DOI:10.1080/14672715.2022.2132413

M. Tinello

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Abstract

ABSTRACT The treaty that the Ryukyu Kingdom signed with the US government in 1854 was crucial for understanding cooperation between the US and Japanese governments when the latter annexed the Ryuku Islands in 1879 (an episode known as the Ryukyu shobun). The article explores how Japan-US negotiations over treaty rights facilitated Japan’s ambitions in the Ryukyus, Ogasawara Islands, and Korea, as well as their confrontation when the US annexed the Kingdom of Hawai’i. By the early twentieth century, these two powers had mutually accepted each other’s territorial acquisitions and, in so doing, built their own empires and brought stability to East Asia and the Pacific. Reviewing the informal agreement between Japan and the US during the annexation of the Ryukyus, we can better appreciate how the first shobun set the stage for later events.

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帝国之间的岛屿:日本的琉球会馆和美国在太平洋的扩张

琉球王国与美国政府于1854年签订的条约，对美国和日本政府在1879年吞并琉球群岛(这一事件被称为琉球昭文)时的合作关系至关重要。本文探讨了日美关于条约权利的谈判如何促进了日本在琉球、小笠原群岛和韩国的野心，以及美国吞并夏威夷王国时两国的对抗。到20世纪初，这两个大国相互接受了对方的领土收购，并以此建立了自己的帝国，为东亚和太平洋地区带来了稳定。回顾吞并琉球时日美之间的非正式协议，我们就能更好地理解第一份协议是如何为后来的事件奠定基础的。

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Critical Asian Studies AREA STUDIES-

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3.20

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期刊介绍： Critical Asian Studies is a peer-reviewed quarterly journal that welcomes unsolicited essays, reviews, translations, interviews, photo essays, and letters about Asia and the Pacific, particularly those that challenge the accepted formulas for understanding the Asia and Pacific regions, the world, and ourselves. Published now by Routledge Journals, part of the Taylor & Francis Group, Critical Asian Studies remains true to the mission that was articulated for the journal in 1967 by the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars.