Ezra F. Vogel (1930-2020) is the author of Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and winner of the Lionel Gelber Prize, and of the international bestseller Japan as Number One. He was Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus at Harvard University.
This elegantly written history of the relationship between East
Asia’s two major powers deploys a 1,500-year chronology with a
confidence that comes from decades of deep research on the topic,
illustrating how influence and power have waxed and waned between
the two countries.
*Financial Times*
Will become required reading…Vogel delves broadly into Japanese and
Chinese societies to urge less acrimony and better mutual
understanding…Displays a lifetime of deep engagement with sources
in English, Chinese and Japanese…He is one of the few thinkers
alive with sufficient traction to speak equally with leaders in
both countries as well as people on the street.
*Times Literary Supplement*
For 1,500 years, China and Japan have taken turns as the major
Asian power players, shaping each other’s destinies even as they’re
often at odds. Vogel traces the nuances.
*New York Times Book Review*
The importance of this book—by one of the great Asian specialists
from the U.S. of the modern era—is in alerting what will hopefully
be a wide readership to how complex, and crucial, Sino-Japanese
relations are, and how any complacency about the two being able to
get on easily and unproblematically can be cured by attending to
their long, complex and frequently acrimonious history.
*Times Higher Education*
Vogel uses the powerful lens of the past to frame contemporary
Chinese-Japanese relations…With scholarly care and an eye on
contemporary policy, Vogel suggests that over the centuries—across
both the imperial and the modern eras—friction has always dominated
their relations.
*Foreign Affairs*
A sweeping, often fascinating, account…Impressively researched and
smoothly written, China and Japan is a timely reminder of how
public perceptions are shaped by political expediency, how new
leaders and propaganda can efface existing goodwill.
*Japan Times*
While it is not easy for outsiders to plumb the deep-seated
emotions and complex psychology of the Sino-Japanese relationship,
no one is better qualified to help us than Ezra Vogel. As the
author of many important and influential books on both countries
and possessing an extraordinary network of contacts among scholars
and policy makers in China, Japan, and the United States, he is
truly a unique scholar of Asia, and it is no surprise that his new
volume is a work of exceptional learning.
*Monumenta Nipponica*
Ezra Vogel’s China and Japan is more than just an important, new
addition to scholarship. Based on more than half a century of
Vogel’s own work, along with that of many others, this masterful
book traces the long relationship between China and Japan in a way
that favors neither over the other and covers a wide range of
social, political, economic, and cultural ties. General readers and
scholars alike have much to gain from reading this marvelous and
welcome history of the interactions between China and Japan.
*Joshua A. Fogel, author of Articulating the Sinosphere*
Vogel’s wonderful book offers a compelling account of over a
millennium of China–Japan history…Powerful and riveting.
*China Review International*
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