Beschreibung:
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, using newly declassified Communist sources.
Introduction: Understanding Modern East Asia 1 Part One War and Revolution 1. Imperial Powers and pre-WWII Japan 2. The Asian-Pacific War (1937-1945) 3. Cold War Japan: Occupation and Reform (1945-1951) 4. The Nationalists vs. the Communists in China 5. The People's Republic and Taiwan (1949-1957) Part Two The East vs. the West 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) Part Three From Bi-polar, Triangle, to Global 10. The Cultural Revolution and Sino-US Rapprochement 11. China's Reforming Movement 12. Two Koreas and the Sino-Vietnamese Border War 13. Surviving the Cold War: China's Globalization Conclusion: East Asia in the Twenty-first Century