Japanese-Mongolian Relations, 1873-1945 ─ Faith, Race and Strategy

This comprehensive history of diplomatic and cultural relations between Japan and Mongolia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries examines the multi-faceted nature of Japan's regional forays, highlighting common social and religious bonds between the countries that fall outside of the more traditionally explored strategic and regional political concerns. The volume provides a time line as well as numerous maps and black and white photographs. Boyd is a research fellow at the Asian Research Center at Murdoch University, Western Australia. Global Oriental is an imprint of Brill. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

James Boyd received his BA in History from the University of Adelaide, South Australia and his PhD from Murdoch University, Western Australia. He has held various positions at institutes in Japan and currently is a research fellow of the Asia Research Centre at Murdoch University. His publications include ‘In Pursuit of an Obsession: Japan in Inner Mongolia in the 1930s’, Japanese Studies, ‘A Forgotten “Hero”: Kawahara Misako and Japan’s Informal Imperialism in Mongolia during the Meiji Period’, Intersections and ‘Horse Power: The Japanese Army, Mongolia and the Horse, 1927-42’, Japan Forum.