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1 online resource : text file, PDF |
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Cover ; Half Title ; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Table of Contents ; List of maps; Acknowledgments; Note on transliterations; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Understanding modern East Asia; A new approach to Cold War history; Two critical themes: Nationalism and modernization; Three text organization features; Notes; PART I: War and revolution; 1. Imperial powers and pre-WWII Japan; Classic civilizations and tributary system (from ancient time to 1500); East Asia's response to European expansion (1600-1800); Meiji Restoration (1868-1912) and Japan's aggression |
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Colonial Korea and Manchuria (1910-1937)Notes; 2. The Asian-Pacific War (1937-1945); Japan's attacks on China and Pearl Harbor (1937-1941); Conquest and home front (1942-1945); Anti-Japanese wars in East Asia; Allied support, operation, and atomic bombs (1942-1945); Notes; 3. Cold War Japan: Occupation and reform (1945-1951); The origin of the Cold War (1945-1947); SCAP policy and the 1947 Constitution; Policy change: Reform and rebuilding (1948-1950); Yoshida cabinets and economic recovery (1948-1951); Aftermath: Political and social changes; Notes |
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4. The Nationalists vs. the Communists in ChinaThe Chinese Civil War (1946-1949); US aid to Jiang (1947-1948); Mao's fight for victory (1948-1949) ; Who lost China?; Notes; 5. The People's Republic of China and Taiwan (1949-1957); Mao's request for Soviet aid; Russian model: The Party-state; Political movements and control; US Taiwan policy change; US aid and the 1954 Taiwan Strait Crisis; Notes; PART II: The East vs. the West; 6. The Korean War (1950-1953); Two Koreas (1945-1950); Northern invasion and the UNF Inchon landing (1950); China's intervention (1950-1953) |
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From trench warfare to the cease-fire (1951-1953) Post-war Koreas (1954-1968); Notes; 7. China and the First Indochina War; Ho and the CCP: Comrade-in-Arms; The DRV, GMD, and the French-Indochina War (1946-1954); Chinese aid and Dien Bien Phu; The 1954 Geneva Convention; Notes; 8. New Japan (1952-1996); Japan-US relations: Aid and trade (1956-1965); Economic taking-off and international relations (1966-1973); New challenges and new foreign policy (the 1970s); Social and political changes (1970s-1980s); From high growth to economic recessions (1980s-1990s); Notes |
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9. The Communist Cold War and Vietnam (1958-1975)Mao's Great Leap Forward movement; Sino-Soviet split (1958-1960); The 1958 Taiwan Strait Crisis and 1962 Sino-Indian War; The Vietnam War (1965-1975); Chinese and Russian aid to Hanoi; Notes; PART III: From bi-polar, triangle, to global; 10. The Cultural Revolution and Sino-US Rapprochement; The Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-1976); The Sino-Soviet border conflict (1969); Nixon's visit to Beijing (1972); Mao's Death and the Gang of Four (1976); Notes; 11. China's reforming movement (1978-1989); Deng's returns and economic reform |
| Summary |
"This textbook provides a survey of East Asia during the Cold War from 1945 to 1991. Focusing on the persistence and flexibility of its culture and tradition when confronted by the West and the US, this book investigates how they intermesh to establish the nations that have entered the modern world. Through the use of newly declassified Communist sources, the narrative helps students form a better understanding of the origins and development of post-WWII East Asia. The analysis demonstrates how East Asia's position in the Cold War was not peripheral but, in many key senses, central. The active role that East Asia played, ultimately, turned this main Cold War battlefield into a "buffer" between the United States and the Soviet Union. Covering a range of countries, this textbook explores numerous events, which took place in East Asia during the Cold War, including:The occupation of Japan, Civil war in China and the establishment of Taiwan, The Korean War, The Vietnam War, China's Reforming Movement. Moving away from Euro-American centric approaches and illuminating the larger themes and patterns in the development of East Asian modernity, The Cold War in East Asia is an essential resource for students of Asian History, the Cold War and World History."--Provided by publisher |
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Cold War.
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HISTORY -- Military -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- General.
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HISTORY -- Asia -- General.
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Diplomatic relations
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East Asia -- History -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92006030
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East Asia -- Foreign relations -- 20th century
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East Asia
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781315624600 |
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1315624605 |
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