Hiina ja Jaapan : võitlus võimu pärast Ida-Aasias (China and Japan : the Struggle for Power in East Asia)

Near fine condition; dust jacket shows some light stains on the front panel, small signs of wear along upper edge, repaired spine ends; some soft creases across bottom outer edges of the book cover; internally fine.

The Estonian translation of one of the more solid books on the Far East „The Struggle for the Pacific“ published in 1937, which reveals interest in Pacific power politics. Its author Binštok, Grigorij (Bienstock, Gregory) economic and political writer, social democrat, was born in Russia in 1884, died in the USA in 1954. He was a Bolshevik before 1905 and a Menshevik afterwards; emigrated in 1922 and took an active part in the social democratic movement in Germany; left Germany c.1933; lived in Prague, London and the USA.

In this work, the author examines an interesting problem - the importance of the Pacific Ocean in the future history of mankind. Analyzing this problem, author is convinced that the world's political and economical center of gravity begins to shift to the Pacific coast. It reveals the importance of the Pacific area in world trade, the significance of its area, sea, and land means of transportation, and the clash between the advances of the yellow and white races. The first one, especially Japanese and Chinese, are beginning to displace whites from the western Pacific. 

Even in the Second Sino-Japanese War, which had been happening at that time (in 1937), the Japanese were guided by principle "Asia for Asians," and this hoped to be achieved by reinforcing its supremacy in China, which was unable to resist European supremacy in its economic and political life. Japan's goal in this war was to create a Sino-Mongolian state that meant to be under Japan's protectorate and to provide the latter with an economic, political and military base for advancing towards the West. The success of Japan in pursuing this far-reaching and long-planned intention should have been to depend in particular on whether the current war would remained a local war or would got interfered other major powers whose interests would got severely affected by Japan's expansionist efforts.

The book includes statistics, photographs, airline and railway traffic maps, Japanese and Chinese colonization maps.