The Korean War In Asia

Author : Nicholas Tarling
Publisher : NUS Press
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9971693151

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Britain, Southeast Asia and the Impact of the Korean War by Nicholas Tarling Pdf

A sequel to the author's Britain, Southeast Asia and the Onset of the Pacific War (Cambridge University Press, 1996) and Britain, Southeast Asia and the Onset of the Cold War (Cambridge University Press, 1998), this book discusses Britain's policy towards Southeast Asia in the period 1950-55, when it was crucially affected by the struggle in Korea. The phases in that struggle - briefly described and placed in a world context - provide a context for discussing Britain's relations with Burma, Thailand, Indonesia, and Indochina. Covering the dispute over West New Guinea and the Chinese Nationalist incursion into Burma, the book gives a full account of the Geneva conference 50 years ago, which reached a settlement in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, and of the creation of the SEATO alliance. The focus of the work is on British policy, and it is largely based on a study of British official records.

Author : Tessa Morris-Suzuki
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538111918

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The Korean War in Asia by Tessa Morris-Suzuki Pdf

This book takes a fresh look at the Korean War by considering the conflict from a Northeast Asian regional perspective. It highlights the connections of the war to earlier conflicts in the region and examines the human impact of the war on neighboring countries, focusing particularly on the ways in which the Korean War shaped regional cross-border movements of people, goods, and ideas (including hopes and fears). It also considers the lasting consequences of these movements for the region’s society and politics.

Author : Peter Lowe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317890928

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The Origins of the Korean War by Peter Lowe Pdf

The impressive Second Edition of this standard study incorporates important new evidence on the origins of the war from Chinese and Russian archives. It reveals that Stalin encouraged the attack on South Korea, but also confirms that the original initiative came from North Korea. Peter Lowe has also written an extended conclusion with a discussion of the Koreas in the late 1990s, and the challenges involved in securing their reunification.

Author : Wada Haruki
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538116425

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The Korean War by Wada Haruki Pdf

This classic history of the Korean War—from its origins through the armistice—is now available in a paperback edition including a substantive introduction that considers the heightened danger of a new Northeast Asian war as Trump and Kim Jong-un escalate their rhetoric. Wada Haruki, one of the world’s leading scholars of the war, draws on archival and other primary sources in Russia, China, the United States, South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan to provide the first full understanding of the Korean War as an international conflict from the perspective of all the actors involved. Wada traces the North Korean invasion of South Korea in riveting detail, providing new insights into the behavior of Kim Il Sung and Syngman Rhee. He also provides new insights into the behavior of Communist leaders in Korea, China, Russia, Eastern Europe, and their rivals in other nations. He traces the course of the war from its origins in the North and South Korean leaders’ failed attempts to unify their country by force, ultimately escalating into a Sino-American war on the Korean Peninsula. Although sixty-five years have passed since the armistice, the Korean conflict has never really ended. Tensions remain high on the peninsula as Washington and Pyongyang, as well as Seoul and Pyongyang, continue to face off. It is even more timely now to address the origins of the Korean War, the nature of the confrontation, and the ways in which it affects the geopolitical landscape of Northeast Asia and the Pacific region. With his unmatched ability to draw on sources from every country involved, Wada paints a rich and full portrait of a conflict that continues to generate controversy.

Author : Steven Lee
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1996-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773566088

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Outposts of Empire by Steven Lee Pdf

Drawing on a wide range of recently declassified documents, Lee outlines the regional and international context of American diplomatic history towards Korea and Vietnam and analyses the relationship between containment, the bipolar international system, and European and American concepts of empire at the beginning of the era of decolonization. He argues that although policy makers in the United Kingdom and Canada adopted a more defensive containment policy towards Communist China than the United States did, they generally supported American attempts to promote pro-Western élites in Korea and Vietnam. This is an important book for anyone interested in American foreign policy, Anglo-American relations, Asia and the international system, and British and Canadian foreign policies.

Author : Lloyd C. Gardner
Publisher : Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Company
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015010386533

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The Korean War by Lloyd C. Gardner Pdf

Author : JaHyun Kim Haboush
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231540988

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The Great East Asian War and the Birth of the Korean Nation by JaHyun Kim Haboush Pdf

The Imjin War (1592–1598) was a grueling conflict that wreaked havoc on the towns and villages of the Korean Peninsula. The involvement of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean forces, not to mention the regional scope of the war, was the largest the world had seen, and the memory dominated East Asian memory until World War II. Despite massive regional realignments, Korea's Chosôn Dynasty endured, but within its polity a new, national discourse began to emerge. Meant to inspire civilians to rise up against the Japanese army, this potent rhetoric conjured a unified Korea and intensified after the Manchu invasions of 1627 and 1636. By documenting this phenomenon, JaHyun Kim Haboush offers a compelling counternarrative to Western historiography, which ties Korea's idea of nation to the imported ideologies of modern colonialism. She instead elevates the formative role of the conflicts that defined the second half of the Chosôn Dynasty, which had transfigured the geopolitics of East Asia and introduced a national narrative key to Korea's survival. Re-creating the cultural and political passions that bound Chosôn society together during this period, Haboush reclaims the root story of solidarity that helped Korea thrive well into the modern era.

Author : Heonik Kwon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108487924

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After the Korean War by Heonik Kwon Pdf

The first comprehensive analysis of the Korean War and its enduring legacies through the lenses of intimate human and social experience.

Author : Bruce Cumings
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812978964

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The Korean War by Bruce Cumings Pdf

A BRACING ACCOUNT OF A WAR THAT IS EITHER MISUNDERSTOOD, FORGOTTEN, OR WILLFULLY IGNORED For Americans, it was a discrete conflict lasting from 1950 to 1953. But for the Asian world the Korean War was a generations-long struggle that still haunts contemporary events. With access to new evidence and secret materials from both here and abroad, including an archive of captured North Korean documents, Bruce Cumings reveals the war as it was actually fought. He describes its origin as a civil war, preordained long before the first shots were fired in June 1950 by lingering fury over Japan’s occupation of Korea from 1910 to 1945. Cumings then shares the neglected history of America’s post–World War II occupation of Korea, reveals untold stories of bloody insurgencies and rebellions, and tells of the United States officially entering the action on the side of the South, exposing as never before the appalling massacres and atrocities committed on all sides. Elegantly written and blisteringly honest, The Korean War is, like the war it illuminates, brief, devastating, and essential.

Author : Philip West,Steven I. Levine,Jackie Hiltz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015039929917

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America's Wars in Asia by Philip West,Steven I. Levine,Jackie Hiltz Pdf

Even though the cultural approach concerns itself with the local and the particular rather than with the abstract and universal, it is inherently comparative. Moreover, it also relocates each war in the historical and cultural experiences of Asian countries themselves rather than seeing the war as merely a conflict between the United States and Asian nations.

Author : Michael Berry,Chiho Sawada
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824875107

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Divided Lenses by Michael Berry,Chiho Sawada Pdf

Divided Lenses: Screen Memories of War in East Asia is the first attempt to explore how the tumultuous years between 1931 and 1953 have been recreated and renegotiated in cinema. This period saw traumatic conflicts such as the Sino-Japanese War, the Pacific War, and the Korean War, and pivotal events such as the Rape of Nanjing, Pearl Harbor, the Battle of Iwo Jima, and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, all of which left a lasting imprint on East Asia and the world. By bringing together a variety of specialists in the cinemas of East Asia and offering divergent yet complementary perspectives, the book explores how the legacies of war have been reimagined through the lens of film. This turbulent era opened with the Mukden Incident of 1931, which signaled a new page in Japanese militaristic aggression in East Asia, and culminated with the Korean War (1950–1953), a protracted conflict that broke out in the wake of Japan's post–World War II withdrawal from Korea. Divided Lenses explores the ways in which events of the intervening decades have continued to shape politics and popular culture throughout East Asia and the world. The essays in part I examine historical trends at work in various "national" cinemas, including China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, and the United States. Those in part 2 focus on specific themes present in the cinema portraying this period—such as comfort women in Chinese film, the Nanjing Massacre, or nationalism—and how they have been depicted or renegotiated in contemporary films. Of particular interest are contributions drawing from other forms of screen culture, such as television and video games. Divided Lenses builds on the growing interest in East Asian cinema by examining how these historic conflicts have been imagined, framed, and revisited through the lens of cinema and screen culture. It will interest later generations living in the shadow of these events, as well as students and scholars in the fields of cinema studies, cultural studies, cold war studies, and World War II history.

Author : William Stueck
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813126654

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The Korean War in World History by William Stueck Pdf

" The Korean War in World History features the accomplishments of noted scholars over the last decade and lays the groundwork for the next generation of scholarship. These essays present the latest thinking on the Korean War, focusing on the relationship of one country to the war. William Stueck’s introduction and conclusion link each essay to the rich historiography of the event and suggest the war’s place within the history of the twentieth century. The Korean War had two very different faces. On one level the conflict was local, growing out of the internal conditions of Korea and fought almost entirely within the confines of a small Asian country located far from Europe. The fighting pitted Korean against Korean in a struggle to determine the balance of political power within the country. Yet the war had a huge impact on the international politics of the Cold War. Combat threatened to extend well beyond the peninsula, potentially igniting another global conflagration and leaving in its wake a much escalated arms race between the Western and Eastern blocs. The dynamics of that division remain today, threatening international peace and security in the twenty-first century. Contributors: Lloyd Gardner, Chen Jian, Allan R. Millett, Michael Schaller, and Kathryn Weathersby

Author : Sheila Miyoshi Jager,Rana Mitter
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0674024702

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Ruptured Histories by Sheila Miyoshi Jager,Rana Mitter Pdf

New forms of nationalism have affected American policy in the Pacific, challenging the post-communist world order. This book explores the wars of the modern era, illuminating regional and global changes in East Asia, and underscoring the need to redefine the Cold War language that still continues to inform U.S.–East Asian relations.

Author : Gi-Wook Shin,Soon-Won Park,Daqing Yang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135984779

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Rethinking Historical Injustice and Reconciliation in Northeast Asia by Gi-Wook Shin,Soon-Won Park,Daqing Yang Pdf

Despite witnessing phenomenal economic growth and the spread of democratization in recent decades, as well as impressive intra-regional exchanges and interactions in the economic and cultural spheres, the Northeast Asian region still experience wounds from past wrongs that were committed in times of colonialism, war and dictatorship. Overcoming these historical animosities has become one of the most pressing issues of the future for the region. Of all the countries in the Northeast Asia region coping with this historical injustice, the Republic of Korea stands out as both a victim and an aggressor. Being a nation that has addressed issues of both internal and external injustice, Korea becomes the focus of this volume. Using examples of injustice from the colonial and the Second World War period, the Korean civil War, the current stage of Korean transitional justice and broader regional and global perspectives, the book concludes with a section on forward-looking approaches for arriving at reconciliation in the Asian region. This is a significant book that will be of huge interest to anyone studying East Asian politics, history or society.

Author : Xiaobing Li
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9789813296756

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China’s War in Korea by Xiaobing Li Pdf

This book re-visits the history of the Korean War of 1950-1953 from a Chinese perspective, examining Chinese strategy and exploring why China sent three million troops to Korea, in Mao’s words, to “defend the homeland and safeguard the country”—giving rise to what became the war’s common name in China. It also looks into the relatively neglected historical factors which have redefined China’s security concerns and strategic culture. Using newly available sources from China and the former Soviet Union, the book considers how interactive the parameters of defense changes were in a foreign war against Western powers, how flexible Chinese strategy was in the context of its intervention, and how expansive its strategic cultural repertoire was at the crucial moment to “defend the country.” Providing a re-examination of China’s military decisions and strategy evolution, this text narrates the story of successive generations of Chinese leaders and provides a key insight into security issues in China and Northeast Asia today.