Routledge
The Cold War in East Asia
Key Metrics
- Xiaobing Li
- Routledge
- Paperback
- 9781138651807
- 9.6 X 6.8 X 0.6 inches
- 0.9 pounds
- History > Asia - China
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
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.
Author Bio
Xiaobing Li, professor of history and director of the Western Pacific Institute at the University of Central Oklahoma, He authored and co-authored The Cold War in East Asia, China's Battle for Korea, China at War, Voices from the Vietnam War, A History of the Modern Chinese Army, Voices from the Korean War, and Mao's Generals Remember Korea.
He served in the People’s Liberation Army in China.
Source: University Press of Kentucky
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