Sheila Miyoshi Jager
- Professor of East Asian Studies
- Chair of East Asian Studies
- Chair of Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
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Sheila Miyoshi Jager Receives Best Book Award
July 2, 2024
Professor of East Asian Studies Sheila Miyoshi Jager's book (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2023) The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia, received the 2024 Robert L. Jervis and Paul W. Schroeder Best Book Award from the International History and Politics section of the American Political Science Association.
Sheila Miyoshi Jager Book Reviewed by International Institute for Asian Studies
May 22, 2024
Professor of East Asian Studies Sheila Miyoshi Jager's latest book The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013) was reviewed by the International Institute for Asian Studies (Leiden, the Netherlands).
Sheila Miyoshi Jager Book Reviewed in "Texas National Security Review"
May 8, 2024
On May 1, 2024, the Texas National Security Review, founded by University of Texas at Austin and War on the Rocks, published a roundtable review by four reviewers of Professor of East Asian Studies Sheila Miyoshi Jager's recent book The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2023).
Sheila Miyoshi Jager Book Reviewed in The Wall Street Journal
January 3, 2024
Stephen R. Platt reviewed Professor of East Asian Studies Sheila Miyoshi Jager's latest book, The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2023), in The Wall Street Journal (22 Dec 2023).
Sheila Miyoshi Jager Book Published
November 8, 2023
The Korean edition of Professor of East Asian Studies Sheila Miyoshi Jager's book, Narratives of Nation-Building in Korea: A Genealogy of Patriotism (M.E. Sharpe, 2003; Routledge, 2016), was published by Namu Yonpil publishers in October 2023.
Sheila Miyoshi Jager Cited and Quoted in "Korea JoongAng Daily"
September 20, 2023
Professor of East Asian Studies Sheila Miyoshi Jager was cited and quoted by Korea JoongAng Daily in "Incheon landing was turning point for war, nation and world," a story marking the 73rd anniversary of the Inchon landing in the Korean War (September 15). Professor Jager is the author of Brothers At War: The Unending Conflict in Korea (Norton, 2013).
Sheila Miyoshi Jager Interviewed on Podcast
July 25, 2023
Professor of East Asian Studies Sheila Miyoshi Jager was interviewed on her new book, The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia, on the New Books Network podcast.
Sheila Miyoshi Jager Article Published in "History Today"
June 27, 2023
Professor of East Asian Studies Sheila Miyoshi Jager published "Korea, the Kingmaker" based on her recent book, The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia, in the July 2023 issue of the British magazine, History Today.
Sheila Miyoshi Jager Gives a Talk at Stanford
May 30, 2023
Professor of East Asian Studies Sheila Miyoshi Jager gave a talk at Stanford University on May 11, 2023, on her new book, The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern Eats Asia.
Sheila Miyoshi Jager Introduced New Book at the Wilson Center
May 23, 2023
Professor of East Asian Studies Sheila Miyoshi Jager introduced her new book, The Other Great Game, at the Wilson Center through its Washington History Seminar program on Monday, May 22.
Sheila Miyoshi Jager Book Published
May 10, 2023
Professor of East Asian Studies Sheila Miyoshi Jager published her latest book, The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia, "A dramatic new telling of the dawn of modern East Asia, placing Korea at the center of a transformed world order wrought by imperial greed and devastating wars."
Book Review by Sheila Miyoshi Jager Published in the New York Times
September 2, 2022
Professor of East Asian Studies Sheila Miyoshi Jager's review of A Continent Erupts: Decolonization, Civil War, and Massacre in Postwar Asia, 1945-1955 (Norton, 2022) by Ronald H. Spector was published in the New York Times.
Sheila Miyoshi Jager Lectures at OSU East Asian Studies Center
April 12, 2022
Professor of East Asian Studies Sheila Miyoshi Jager lectured on "The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea, Wars of Empires, and the Birth of Modern East Asia" at a conference on April 8 marking the 50th anniversary of Ohio State University's East Asian Studies Center.
Sheila Miyoshi Jager Publishes Chapter in The Cambridge History of America and the World
March 31, 2022
Professor of East Asian Studies Sheila Miyoshi Jager published a chapter in The Cambridge History of America and the World, a 4-volume collection published in early March by Cambridge University Press as part of their Cambridge Histories series. The four-volume reference work will cover a 500-year period in chronological order: 1500 to 1812, 1812 to 1900, 1900 to 1945, and 1945 to the present. Jager's chapter, "Competing Empires in Asia," appeared in Volume 3 (1900-1945) and discussed the history of the rivalry between the United States and Japan in Asia-Pacific that began at the start of the 20th century and ended with World War II. The entire series along with other Cambridge histories is digitally accessible through the Oberlin College library system under "Cambridge histories."
Sheila Miyoshi Jager Publishes Dutch Edition of Book
June 26, 2020
The Dutch edition of East Asian Studies Professor Sheila Miyoshi Jager's book Brothers At War: The Unending Conflict in Korea was released on June, 23 2020 from Uitgeverij Omniboek. It joins the U.S. and UK editions, both published in 2013.
Jiyul Kim and Sheila Miyoshi Jager Publish on the Korean War
June 19, 2020
Visiting Instructor of History Jiyul Kim and Professor of East Asian Studies Sheila Miyoshi Jager recently published "The Lasting Legacies of Korean War Special Operations" in the special Summer 2020 issue of the Wilson Quarterly marking the 70th anniversary of the Korean War and a series of posts on "New and Old Sources on Select Korean War Topics & Issues" on The Wilson Center History & Public Policy Program's Sources & Methods site.
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