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FPRI’s June Teufel Dreyer Latest Book Reviewed in H-Net
FPRI’s June Teufel Dreyer Latest Book Reviewed in H-Net
June Teufel Dreyer. Middle Kingdom and Empire of the Rising Sun: Sino-Japanese Relations, Past and Present. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. xi + 454 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-537566-4.
Reviewed by Peter Mauch (Western Sydney University)
Published on H-Diplo (January, 2017)
Commissioned by Seth Offenbach
“June Teufel Dreyer’s Middle Kingdom and Empire of the Rising Sun is a timely book. It is also sobering. A study of the Sino-Japanese relationship, it forecasts no particular improvement in the “uncomfortable peace” that today prevails between Japan and China. It regards resolution of the issues that beset the relationship as unlikely. The best it can offer is the “hope” that bilateral problems might somehow be “managed” (p. 379).”