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As the Oberlin professor Sheila Miyoshi Jager argues in “The Other Great Game,” these two wars reshaped the traditional balance of power in the region and set the stage for World War II in Asia.

As Sheila Miyoshi Jager demonstrates in “The Other Great Game,” her ambitious and wide-ranging new book, the tensions that developed at the time reverberate to this day.