The Woodrow Wilson Center Press
The Cold War in East Asia: 1945–1991
Related Topics: Cold War, Asia
The Cold War in East Asia studies Asia as a second front in the Cold War, examining how the six powers—the United States, the Soviet Union, China, Japan, and North and South Korea—interacted with one another and forged the conditions that were distinct from the Cold War in Europe. The contributors are among the foremost historians of the new Cold War history, and this book draws on a wide array of newly available archival information in many languages, with particular strength in the use of Russian and Chinese archival material. The Cold War in East Asia shows how as a second front the Cold War in East Asia influenced the shape of the Cold War's first front—the East-West confrontation centering in Europe—and third front in the developing world.
Each chapter, while focused on particular countries and particular time spans, situates its story within a broad overview. And the volume stresses the uniqueness of the region's historical experience and explains how it serves as the background to some of the key conflicts in East Asia today.
What People are Saying
"This edited volume provides a wealth of new information coming from fresh research in Japanese, American, East European, U.S., and Chinese archival and primary sources. This is an important contribution to the state of the field."—Christopher Goscha, Associate Professor of History at University of Quebec at Montreal
"There is, clearly, a real need for a book of this sort and it will doubtless be welcomed by scholars in all of those fields, as well as international/diplomatic historians more broadly and area specialists and comparativists in Political Science."—Robert McMahon, Professor of History at Ohio State University
Chapter List
Acknowledgments
A Note on Spelling, Transliteration, and Names
Introduction: East Asia—the Second Significant Front of the Cold War, Tsuyoshi Hasegawa
1. Struggles for Modernity: The Golden Years of the Sino-Soviet Alliance, Odd Arne Westad
2. The Second Front of the Soviet Cold War: Asia in the System of Moscow's Foreign Policy Priorities, 1945–1956, Ilya V. Gaiduk
3. Reorienting the Cold War: The Implications of China's Early Cold War Experience, Taking Korea as a Central Test Case, Chen Jian
4. Military Occupation and Empire Building in Cold War Asia: The United States and Korea, 1945–1955, Steven Hugh Lee
5. Kim Il Sung's Balancing Act between Moscow and Beijing, 1956–1972, Nobuo Shimotomai
6. Chinese Foreign Policy, 1960–1979, Lorenz Lüthi
7. Japan's Foreign Policy under Détente: Relations with China and the Soviet Union, 1971–1973, Kazuhiko Togo
8. A Strategic Quadrangle: The Superpowers and the Sino-Japanese Treaty of Peace and Friendship, 1977–1978, Tsuyoshi Hasegawa
9. Korea's Great Divergence: North and South Korea between 1972 and 1987, Gregg Brazinsky
10. Gorbachev's Policy toward East Asia, 1985–1991, Vladislav Zubok
11. Inertia and Change: Soviet Policy toward Korea,1985–1991, Sergey Radchenko
Contributors
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