Cumings Parallax Visions

Making Sense of American-East Asian Relations at the End of the Century
1. Auflage 1999
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9746-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

Reihe: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society

Collection of essays by Cumings on the complex problems of political economy and ideology, power and culture in East and Northeast Asia, providing an understanding of the United States's role in these regions and the consequences for subsequent policy mak

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cumings, Bruce

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Archaeology, Descent, Emergence: American Mythology and East Asian Reality Chapter 2. East Wind, Rain Red Wind Black Rain: The United States-Japan War, Beginning and End Chapter 3. Colonial Formations and Deformations: Korea, Taiwan, and Vietnam Chapter 4. Civil Society and Democracy in the United States and East Asia Chapter 5. Nuclear Imbalance of Terror: The American Surveillance Regime and North Korea's Nuclear Program Chapter 6. The World Shakes China Chapter 7. Boundary Displacement: The State, the Foundations, and International and Area Studies during and after the Cold War Chapter 8. East Asia and the United States: Double Vision and Hegemonic Emergence Notes Index

Über Autor(innen)

Bruce Cumings is Norman and Edna Freehling Professor of History at the University of Chicago. He has won numerous awards and is the author of the acclaimed books Korea’s Place in the Sun, War and Television, and The Origins of the Korean War. Cumings writes regularly for The Nation, the Atlantic Monthly, the Los Angeles Times, and the New York Times Book Review.