Author : Steve Tsang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 6000008287
Cold War`s Odd Couple
Steve Tsang
The Cold War S Odd Couple
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The Cold War's Odd Couple
Steve Tsang
Author : Steve Tsang
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2005-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857711489
The Cold War's Odd Couple by Steve Tsang Pdf
The relationship between the USA and the People's Republic of China (PRC) was the defining factor in the Cold War in Asia - the potentially explosive conflict which, as seen in the Korean War, brought the world to the brink of nuclear disaster. The PRC had not become 'Titoist' as some hoped and remained firmly within the Soviet international orbit. But how did Great Britain and the Republic of China (ROC) fit into this potentially lethal global jigsaw? Steve Tsang has illuminated the history of a seemingly obscure corner of international relations and politics but which was, to contempories, at the heart of global survival. He has carried out extensive research in unique Chinese- and English-language sources, both official and private.
Comrades!
Robert Service
Author : Robert Service
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 067402530X
Comrades! by Robert Service Pdf
Service offers a history of communism, drawing the uncomfortable conclusion that the poverty and injustice that enabled its rise are still dangerously alive. Unsettling and compelling, this is a comprehensive study of one of the most important movements of the modern world.
The Everyday Cold War
Chi-kwan Mark
Author : Chi-kwan Mark
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474265461
The Everyday Cold War by Chi-kwan Mark Pdf
In 1950 the British government accorded diplomatic recognition to the newly founded People's Republic of China. But it took 22 years for Britain to establish full diplomatic relations with China. How far was Britain's China policy a failure until 1972? This book argues that Britain and China were involved in the 'everyday Cold War', or a continuous process of contestation and cooperation that allowed them to 'normalize' their confrontation in the absence of full diplomatic relations. From Vietnam and Taiwan to the mainland and Hong Kong, China's 'everyday Cold War' against Britain was marked by diplomatic ritual, propaganda rhetoric and symbolic gestures. Rather than pursuing a failed policy of 'appeasement', British decision-makers and diplomats regarded engagement or negotiation with China as the best way of fighting the 'everyday Cold War'. Based on extensive British and Chinese archival sources, this book examines not only the high politics of Anglo-Chinese relations, but also how the British diplomats experienced the Cold War at the local level.
Taiwan's Impact on China
Steve Tsang
Author : Steve Tsang
Publisher : Springer
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319337500
Taiwan's Impact on China by Steve Tsang Pdf
This book is about the basis and scope of impact that Taiwan – a democracy with a population of around 23 million – has on China, the most powerful remaining Leninist state which claims sovereignty over Taiwan and has a population of over 1.3 billion. It examines how Taiwan has helped China in its economic transformation, but argues that the former exercises greatest influence through its soft power. The expert and timely contributions in this book demonstrate how Taiwan exerts real influence in China through admiration of its popular culture, be it in music or literature, as well as its reach into politics and economics. As mainland Chinese visit Taiwan, they are most impressed with civility in everyday living based on a modernized version of the traditional Chinese culture. However, discussions in the book also reveal the limits of Taiwan’s impact, as the Chinese government tightly controls the narrative about Taiwan and does not tolerate any Taiwanese posing a threat to its monopoly of power.
China, Japan and Regional Leadership in East Asia
Christopher M. Dent
Author : Christopher M. Dent
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781848442795
China, Japan and Regional Leadership in East Asia by Christopher M. Dent Pdf
China, Japan and Regional Leadership in East Asia is a compilation which provides a necessary and welcome update to the Asian regionalism debates of the last decade, bringing together notable experts in Asian area studies and comparative foreign policy to provide many new insights. . . essential reading both for practitioners of Asian studies and those concerned with the role of comparative regionalism in modern international relations. Marc Lanteigne, East Asia An International Quarterly . . . this book is strongly recommended reading for everyone interested in Japan China relations, leadership, and East Asia. It proves that looking at complex issues from a variety of angles does bring a much deeper understanding. I thoroughly enjoyed it! Marie Söderberg, Journal of Japanese Studies This book addresses one of the most intriguing but also under-researched issues of the future of the Asian strategic landscape: who will lead the region and replace US leadership, Japan and China, and what kind of leadership do we have to expect? The authors come to the conclusion that it is a matrix or combination of leadership options rather than a single leadership type, depending on issue domains, governance structure and geospatial scales. . . The conclusions by Christopher Dent admirably draw the theoretical and empirical issues together. Reinhard Drifte, Pacific Affairs This book considers themes, evidence and ideas relating to the prospects for regional leadership in East Asia, with particular reference to China and Japan assuming regional leader actor roles. Key issues discussed by the list of distinguished contributors include: the extent to which there is an East Asian region to lead China Japan relations different aspects of Japan and China s positions in the East Asia region how the seemingly inexorable rise of China is being addressed within the region how China and Japan have explored paths of regional leadership through certain regional and multilateral organisations and frameworks the position of certain intermediary powers (i.e. the United States and Korea) with regards to regional leadership diplomacy in East Asia. Invaluably, the concluding chapter brings together the main findings of the book and presents new analytical approaches for studying the nature of, and prospects for leadership in East Asia. China, Japan and Regional Leadership in East Asia will be essential reading for upper level undergraduate and postgraduate students and researchers of international relations, regional studies, international political economy and economics as well as Asian and development studies.
A New Beginning or More of the Same?
Michael Reilly,Chun-Yi Lee
Author : Michael Reilly,Chun-Yi Lee
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811598418
A New Beginning or More of the Same? by Michael Reilly,Chun-Yi Lee Pdf
The EU’s interest in and engagement with North East Asia has grown massively over the last three decades, the shaping and implementation of its policy influenced heavily by the UK and its historical links with East Asia. Brexit therefore raises questions about the future of this engagement and comes against a background of wider threats to the liberal world order, especially rising tensions between the USA and China. Worried that they may be forced to choose sides in their hitherto carefully managed relationships with the two, China’s neighbours are therefore watching with interest to see how the EU and the UK respond and manage their future relations with the region. This book goes beyond the traditional trade links to consider diplomatic and security perspectives, as well as wider issues such as the possible impact on educational and research links. It will be of interest to diplomats, scholars, and economists.
Twentieth Century Colonialism and China
Bryna Goodman,David Goodman
Author : Bryna Goodman,David Goodman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136450396
Twentieth Century Colonialism and China by Bryna Goodman,David Goodman Pdf
Colonialism in China was a piecemeal agglomeration that achieved its greatest extent in the first half of the twentieth century, the last edifices falling at the close of the century. The diversity of these colonial arrangements across China’s landscape defies systematic characterization. This book investigates the complexities and subtleties of colonialism in China during the first half of the twentieth century. In particular, the contributors examine the interaction between localities and forces of globalization that shaped the particular colonial experiences characterizing much of China’s experience at this time. In the process it is clear that an emphasis on interaction, synergy and hybridity can add much to an understanding of colonialism in Twentieth Century China based on the simple binaries of colonizer and colonized, of aggressor and victim, and of a one-way transfer of knowledge and social understanding. To provide some kind of order to the analysis, the chapters in this volume deal in separate sections with colonial institutions of hybridity, colonialism in specific settings, the social biopolitics of colonialism, colonial governance, and Chinese networks in colonial environments. Bringing together an international team of experts, Twentieth Century Colonialism and China is an essential resource for students and scholars of modern Chinese history and colonialism and imperialism.
Modernity with a Cold War Face
Xiaojue Wang
Author : Xiaojue Wang
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781684175352
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."
China’s Securing, Shaping, and Exploitation of Strategic Spaces: Gray Zone Response and Counter-Shi Strategies
Robert J. Bunker
Author : Robert J. Bunker
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781796077865
China’s Securing, Shaping, and Exploitation of Strategic Spaces: Gray Zone Response and Counter-Shi Strategies by Robert J. Bunker Pdf
The timing of Dr. Robert J. Bunker’s new SWJ pocket book is apropos given the increasing intransigence of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in both its domestic ‘police state’ security policies and foreign ‘expansionistic’ economic and military activities. This authoritarian regime—bereft of its former Marxist and Maoist ideologies except in name only—under the iron fisted leadership of ‘president for life’ Xi Jinping is increasingly in the news for the many draconian and predatory behaviors and actions in which it is now engaging. Dave Dilegge Editor-in-Chief Small Wars Journal
Navies and Global Defense
Roch Legault
Author : Roch Legault
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1995-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313021671
Navies and Global Defense by Roch Legault Pdf
These essays explore the link between the naval strength and global power of Great Britain and the United States from 1815 to the present. The British Way of Warfare assumed that the country with control of the sea could ensure safe and rapid communications for its commerce. The American theory of naval strategy, on the other hand, assumed that one had to engage the enemy in order to assure command of the sea. These case studies illustrate once again that naval history must include cultural, economic, political, and social contexts.
History on the Run
Ma Vang
Author : Ma Vang
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478012849
History on the Run by Ma Vang Pdf
During its secret war in Laos (1961–1975), the United States recruited proxy soldiers among the Hmong people. Following the war, many of these Hmong soldiers migrated to the United States with refugee status. In History on the Run Ma Vang examines the experiences of Hmong refugees in the United States to theorize refugee histories and secrecy, in particular those of the Hmong. Vang conceptualizes these histories as fugitive histories, as they move and are carried by people who move. Charting the incomplete archives of the war made secret through redacted US state documents, ethnography, film, and literature, Vang shows how Hmong refugees tell their stories in ways that exist separately from narratives of U.S. empire and that cannot be traditionally archived. In so doing, Vang outlines a methodology for writing histories that foreground refugee epistemologies despite systematic attempts to silence those histories.
The Great Free Trade Myth
Michael Reilly
Author : Michael Reilly
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811585586
The Great Free Trade Myth by Michael Reilly Pdf
This book is based on the author’s experience as a British diplomat and scholar working in East Asia for much of the period since 1980. It seeks to challenge widely held views in Britain about the nature of our relations with countries in East Asia, especially in respect of trade. It does so by looking at case studies, or specific incidents in diplomatic relations, not academic theory, using examples that have hitherto received little or no attention. While it is aimed at general readers who may have an interest in the broad subject, it should also be of great value to academics and scholars.
China’s Grand Strategy Under Xi Jinping
Niv Horesh
Author : Niv Horesh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000289275
China’s Grand Strategy Under Xi Jinping by Niv Horesh Pdf
This book attempts to identify change and continuity in PRC grand strategy, and the extent to which Chinese imperial history complicates PRC global outreach in the Xi Jinping era. Empires convey the wish to make the world a better place – even in the midst of oppression – and are eschatological in their rhetoric. However, empires that last longer have been more pragmatic in their grand strategy; sometimes appropriating the aura of past golden ages, and at other times learning from the mistakes of their predecessors. To date, Chinese strategic thinkers are preoccupied with learning lessons from the disintegration of the USSR and fascinated by the secrets of American power. Interdisciplinary in its reach, analysing grand strategy through both rhetoric and praxis, this book unpacks the Chinese world view through critical examination of the latest history textbooks currently in use in PRC middle schools. It also brings new evidence to bear on the debate in the West about Chinese strategic culture. Finally, it compares historical Japanese OFDI patterns with China in order to understand what makes the Chinese economy unique. China’s Grand Strategy Under Xi Jinping is aimed towards students and scholars of history, international business and wider Chinese studies.
TheGreater Middle East in Global Politics
Mehdi Parvizi Amineh
Author : Mehdi Parvizi Amineh
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004158597
TheGreater Middle East in Global Politics by Mehdi Parvizi Amineh Pdf
This anthology unites in one volume two studies of the Greater Middle East in global politics - each conceptual and empirical. First, it is a historical-comparative study of politics and societies in selected Greater Middle Eastern countries. Second, it is an empirical case study of states and societies of the Greater Middle East in global politics.