Cold War Mandarin

Author : Seth Jacobs
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0742544486

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Cold War Mandarin by Seth Jacobs Pdf

For almost a decade, the tyrannical Ngo Dinh Diem governed South Vietnam as a one-party police state while the U.S. financed his tyranny. In this new book, Seth Jacobs traces the history of American support for Diem from his first appearance in Washington as a penniless expatriate in 1950 to his murder by South Vietnamese soldiers on the outskirts of Saigon in 1963. Drawing on recent scholarship and newly available primary sources, Cold War Mandarin explores how Diem became America's bastion against a communist South Vietnam, and why the Kennedy and Eisenhower administrations kept his regime afloat. Finally, Jacobs examines the brilliantly organized public-relations campaign by Saigon's Buddhists that persuaded Washington to collude in the overthrow--and assassination--of its longtime ally. In this clear and succinct analysis, Jacobs details the "Diem experiment," and makes it clear how America's policy of "sink or swim with Ngo Dinh Diem" ultimately drew the country into the longest war in its history.

Author : Jian Chen
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807898901

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Mao's China and the Cold War by Jian Chen Pdf

This comprehensive study of China's Cold War experience reveals the crucial role Beijing played in shaping the orientation of the global Cold War and the confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. The success of China's Communist revolution in 1949 set the stage, Chen says. The Korean War, the Taiwan Strait crises, and the Vietnam War--all of which involved China as a central actor--represented the only major "hot" conflicts during the Cold War period, making East Asia the main battlefield of the Cold War, while creating conditions to prevent the two superpowers from engaging in a direct military showdown. Beijing's split with Moscow and rapprochement with Washington fundamentally transformed the international balance of power, argues Chen, eventually leading to the end of the Cold War with the collapse of the Soviet Empire and the decline of international communism. Based on sources that include recently declassified Chinese documents, the book offers pathbreaking insights into the course and outcome of the Cold War.

Author : Jinhua Dai
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781478002208

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After the Post–Cold War by Jinhua Dai Pdf

In After the Post–Cold War eminent Chinese cultural critic Dai Jinhua interrogates history, memory, and the future of China as a global economic power in relation to its socialist past, profoundly shaped by the Cold War. Drawing on Marxism, post-structuralism, psychoanalysis, and feminist theory, Dai examines recent Chinese films that erase the country’s socialist history to show how such erasure resignifies socialism’s past as failure and thus forecloses the imagining of a future beyond that of globalized capitalism. She outlines the tension between China’s embrace of the free market and a regime dependent on a socialist imprimatur. She also offers a genealogy of China’s transformation from a source of revolutionary power into a fountainhead of globalized modernity. This narrative, Dai contends, leaves little hope of moving from the capitalist degradation of the present into a radical future that might offer a more socially just world.

Author : Xiaobing Li,Hongshan Li
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0761809783

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China and the United States by Xiaobing Li,Hongshan Li Pdf

Presents 12 essays by international relations historians with unique access to Chinese foreign policy documents by virtue of their having been born and raised in China and educated in the West. A central concern throughout the essays is an exploration of the untold story of China's foreign policy decision-making. Topics covered include: Sino-Korean-Soviet relations as explanatory of Chinese troops being sent into the Korean War, Mao's efforts to expand China's world role in the Taiwan Straits crises, relations between Beijing and Hanoi during the Vietnam War, cultural and educational relations as an important part of U.S.-Taiwan interaction, and U.S. support for the Nationalist air force as responsible for Communist Party suspicion of Washington. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Grace Ai-Ling Chou
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789004182479

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Confucianism, Colonialism, and the Cold War by Grace Ai-Ling Chou Pdf

By tracing the history of Hong Kong’s New Asia College from its 1949 establishment through its 1963 incorporation into The Chinese University of Hong Kong, this study examines the interaction of colonial, communist, and cultural forces on the Chinese periphery.

Author : Yangwen Zheng,Hong Liu,Michael Szonyi
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004175372

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The Cold War in Asia by Yangwen Zheng,Hong Liu,Michael Szonyi Pdf

The Cold War stayed cold in Europe but it was hot in Asia. Its legacy lives on in the region. In none of the three dominant historiographical paradigms: orthodox, revisionist and post-revisionist, does Asia, or the rest of the Third World, figure with much significance. What happens to these narratives if we put them to the test in Asia? This volume argues that attention to what has been conventionally considered the periphery is essential to a full understanding of the global Cold War. Foregrounding Asia necessarily leads to a re-assessment of the dominant narratives. This volume also argues for a shift in focus from diplomacy and high politics alone towards research into the culture of the Cold War era and its public diplomacy. "As a whole, the essays contribute to enriching our understanding of what was really happening in an era that is too often understood in the catch-all framework of the Cold War." - Akira Iriye, "Harvard University"

Author : Xiaojue Wang
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781684175352

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Modernity with a Cold War Face by Xiaojue Wang Pdf

"The year 1949 witnessed China divided into multiple political and cultural entities. How did this momentous shift affect Chinese literary topography? Modernity with a Cold War Face examines the competing, converging, and conflicting modes of envisioning a modern nation in mid-twentieth century Chinese literature. Bridging the 1949 divide in both literary historical periodization and political demarcation, Xiaojue Wang proposes a new framework to consider Chinese literature beyond national boundaries, as something arising out of the larger global geopolitical and cultural conflict of the Cold War.Examining a body of heretofore understudied literary and cultural production in mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and overseas during a crucial period after World War II, Wang traces how Chinese writers collected artistic fragments, blended feminist and socialist agendas, constructed ambivalent stances toward colonial modernity and an imaginary homeland, translated foreign literature to shape a new Chinese subjectivity, and revisited the classics for a new time. Reflecting historical reality in fictional terms, their work forged a path toward multiple modernities as they created alternative ways of connection, communication, and articulation to uncover and undermine Cold War dichotomous antagonism."

Author : Gordon Barrett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108956253

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China's Cold War Science Diplomacy by Gordon Barrett Pdf

During the early decades of the Cold War, the People's Republic of China remained outside much of mainstream international science. Nevertheless, Chinese scientists found alternative channels through which to communicate and interact with counterparts across the world, beyond simple East/West divides. By examining the international activities of elite Chinese scientists, Gordon Barrett demonstrates that these activities were deeply embedded in the Chinese Communist Party's wider efforts to win hearts and minds from the 1940s to the 1970s. Using a wide range of archival material, including declassified documents from China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs Archive, Barrett provides fresh insights into the relationship between science and foreign relations in the People's Republic of China.

Author : Jeremy E. Taylor,Lanjun Xu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000450194

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Chineseness and the Cold War by Jeremy E. Taylor,Lanjun Xu Pdf

This book explores contested notions of "Chineseness" in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong during the Cold War, showing how competing ideas about "Chineseness" were an important ideological factor at play in the region. After providing an overview of the scholarship on "Chineseness" and "diaspora", the book sheds light on specific case studies, through the lens of the "Chinese cultural Cold War", from Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaya, Thailand, Indonesia and Vietnam. It provides detailed examples of competition for control of definitions of "Chineseness" by political or politically oriented forces of diverse kinds, and shows how such competition was played out in bookstores, cinemas, music halls, classrooms, and even sports clubs and places of worship across the region in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. The book also demonstrates how the legacies of these Cold War contestations continue to influence debates about Chinese influence – and "Chineseness" – in Southeast Asia and the wider region today. Chapter 6 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Author : Xiaobing Li
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Cold War
ISBN : 113865180X

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The Cold War in East Asia by Xiaobing Li Pdf

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 -- 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 -- Market economy and opening to the West -- The 1989 Tiananmen Square Event -- Notes -- 12. Two Koreas and the Sino-Vietnamese Border War -- North Korea: The Kim Dynasty (1972-1994) -- South Korea: Industrialization and democratization (1963-1996) -- The Sino-Vietnamese conflict in the 1970s -- China's attack on Vietnam (1979) -- Notes -- 13. Surviving the Cold War: China's globalization -- Jiang's struggle for CCP survival -- Continuing economic reform -- Hu's China: Economic superpower -- Social problems, corruption, and civil rights -- Notes -- Conclusion -- East Asia in the twenty-first century -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Author : NIU Jun
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004369078

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The Cold War and the Origins of Foreign Relations of the People’s Republic of China by NIU Jun Pdf

"September 22, 1947 is a special day in the international history of the Cold War. On this day, the world turned its attention to Europe where the US-Soviet confrontation to divide the world into two competing camps reached a turning point"--

Author : Meredith Oyen
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501701474

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The Diplomacy of Migration by Meredith Oyen Pdf

During the Cold War, both Chinese and American officials employed a wide range of migration policies and practices to pursue legitimacy, security, and prestige. They focused on allowing or restricting immigration, assigning refugee status, facilitating student exchanges, and enforcing deportations. The Diplomacy of Migration focuses on the role these practices played in the relationship between the United States and the Republic of China both before and after the move to Taiwan. Meredith Oyen identifies three patterns of migration diplomacy: migration legislation as a tool to achieve foreign policy goals, migrants as subjects of diplomacy and propaganda, and migration controls that shaped the Chinese American community. Using sources from diplomatic and governmental archives in the United States, the Republic of China on Taiwan, the People’s Republic of China, and the United Kingdom, Oyen applies a truly transnational perspective. The Diplomacy of Migration combines important innovations in the field of diplomatic history with new international trends in migration history to show that even though migration issues were often considered "low stakes" or "low risk" by foreign policy professionals concerned with Cold War politics and the nuclear age, they were neither "no risk" nor unimportant to larger goals. Instead, migration diplomacy became a means of facilitating other foreign policy priorities, even when doing so came at great cost for migrants themselves.

Author : Robert G. Sutter
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442211360

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Chinese Foreign Relations by Robert G. Sutter Pdf

This comprehensive introduction to Chinese foreign relations examines the opportunities and limits China faces as it seeks growing international influence. Tracing the record of twists and turns in Chinese foreign relations since the end of the Cold War, Robert G. Sutter provides a nuanced analysis that shows that despite its growing power, Beijing is hampered by both domestic and international constraints. Newly revised, this edition features more extensive treatment of China’s role in the international economy and greater discussion of its relations with the developing world. Overall, Sutter's balanced and thorough assessment shows China's leaders exerting more influence in world affairs but remaining far from dominant. Facing numerous contradictions and trade-offs, they move cautiously as they deal with a complex global environment.

Author : Brian Murray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : China
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017111266

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Stalin, the Cold War, and the Division of China by Brian Murray Pdf

Author : Robert S. Ross,Changbin Jiang
Publisher : Harvard Univ Asia Center
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0674005260

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Re-examining the Cold War by Robert S. Ross,Changbin Jiang Pdf

The twelve essays in this volume underscore the similarities between Chinese and American approaches to bilateral diplomacy and between their perceptions of each other's policy-making motivations. Much of the literature on U.S.-China relations posits that each side was motivated either by ideologically informed interests or by ideological assumptions about its counterpart. But as these contributors emphasize, newly accessible archives suggest rather that both Beijing and Washington developed a responsive and tactically adaptable foreign policy. Each then adjusted this policy in response to changing international circumstances and changing assessments of its counterpart's policies. Motivated less by ideology than by pragmatic national security concerns, each assumed that the other faced similar considerations.