Subtitle:
Asia Over Lunch 2013
Activity Type:
Lecture Series / Brown Bag
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Presenter:
Nyri Bakalian, PhD Candidate in History, University of Pittsburgh
Date:
Wednesday, December 4, 2013 - 12:00 to 13:00
Event Status:
As Scheduled
Location:
4130 Posvar Hall
The Japanese Civil War, also known as the Boshin War, is an understudied chapter in the Bakumatsu-Meiji transition. This talk will propose a new interpretation of the period as neither peaceful nor a conflict between a set pair of combatants, but rather as three conflicts in one. It will further analyze the defeat of the Northern Alliance (Ôuetsu Reppandomei), one of the conflict’s belligerent parties. Why was this alliance of 31 domains, stronger than the nascent Meiji government, defeated?
UCIS Unit:
Asian Studies Center
World Regions:
Asia
East Asia