The Cold War in East Asia 1st edition by Xiaobing Li 9781138651807 113865180X

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ISBN 10: 113865180X
ISBN 13: 9781138651807 
Author: Xiaobing Li

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.

Table of contents:

PART I: War and revolution

1. Imperial powers and pre-WWII Japan

2. The Asian-Pacific War (1937–1945)

3. The Asian-Pacific War (1937–1945)

4. The Nationalists vs. the Communists in China

5.The People’s Republic of China and Taiwan (1949–1957)

6.The Korean War (1950–1953)

7.China and the First Indochina War

8.New Japan (1952–1996)

9. The Communist Cold War and Vietnam (1958–1975)

10. The Cultural Revolution and Sino-US Rapprochement 

11. China’s reforming movement (1978–1989)

12. Two Koreas and the Sino-Vietnamese Border War

13. Surviving the Cold War: China’s globalization

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