| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.1

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S. C. M. Paine. The Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895: Perceptions, Power, and Primacy. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2003. Pp. xi, 412. $55.00.

It may well be that one "can't tell a book by its cover" or even by its title. While S. C. M. Paine protests that her book is not a military history (p. 19), there is much to recommend it as such. Paine may not have had access to the concise reports from the battlefield by neutral military observers for which researchers pray. However, her gleaning of contemporary reports available to the Western press in the region greatly increases the general understanding of numerous battles and how the two sides conducted their warfare.

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