Author: William Lancelot HollandPublisher: RYUUKEISYOSYA
ISBN: 9784844763819
Category : Pacific Area
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Remembering the Institute of Pacific Relations
Author: William Lancelot HollandPublisher: RYUUKEISYOSYA
ISBN: 9784844763819
Category : Pacific Area
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
The American military and the Far East proceedings of the Ninth Military History Symposium United States Air Force Academy 1-3 October 1980
Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428993673
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
The American Military and the Far East
Author: Joe C. DixonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asia, Southeastern
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1948: The Far East: China
Author: Dictionary Catalog of the History of the Americas
Author: New York Public Library. Reference DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 908
Book Description
Agents of Subversion
Author: John P. DeluryPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501765981
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Agents of Subversion reconstructs the remarkable story of a botched mission into Manchuria, showing how it fit into a wider CIA campaign against Communist China and highlighting the intensity—and futility—of clandestine operations to overthrow Mao. In the winter of 1952, at the height of the Korean War, the CIA flew a covert mission into China to pick up an agent. Trained on a remote Pacific island, the agent belonged to an obscure anti-communist group known as the Third Force based out of Hong Kong. The exfiltration would fail disastrously, and one of the Americans on the mission, a recent Yale graduate named John T. Downey, ended up a prisoner of Mao Zedong's government for the next twenty years. Unraveling the truth behind decades of Cold War intrigue, John Delury documents the damage that this hidden foreign policy did to American political life. The US government kept the public in the dark about decades of covert activity directed against China, while Downey languished in a Beijing prison and his mother lobbied desperately for his release. Mining little-known Chinese sources, Delury sheds new light on Mao's campaigns to eliminate counterrevolutionaries and how the chairman of the Chinese Communist Party used captive spies in diplomacy with the West. Agents of Subversion is an innovative work of transnational history, and it demonstrates both how the Chinese Communist regime used the fear of special agents to tighten its grip on society and why intellectuals in Cold War America presciently worried that subversion abroad could lead to repression at home.
U.S. Policy in the Far East
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : East Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
The Diplomacy of Involvement
Author: David M. PletcherPublisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 0826263534
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
Annotation Like its predecessor, this important new work is focused on the connection between trade and investment on the one hand and U.S. foreign policy on the other. David Pletcher describes the trade of the United States with the Far East, the islands of the Pacific, and the northwest coast of North America from 1784 (the year of the first American trading expedition to China) to 1844 (the year of the first trade treaty with China, followed immediately by the U.S. acquisition of Oregon and California). He then traces the growth of trade and investment in Alaska, Hawaii, and the South Pacific from 1844 to 1890 and proceeds to do the same for China, Japan, and Korea. In the ensuing chapters, Pletcher covers the 1890s, including the annexation of Hawaii, the Sino-Japanese War, the acquisition of the Philippines, and the Open Door policy in China. He concludes that the American expansion across the Pacific and into the Far East was not a deliberate, consistent drive for economic hegemony but a halting, experimental, improvised movement, carried out against determined opposition and indifference and dotted with setbacks and failures. Providing his own judgments about the wisdom and effectiveness of America's new endeavors, Pletcher summarizes the problems and handicaps involved, demonstrating that errors of the twentieth century were at least partly the result of poor preparation in the 1880s and 1890s. Touching on every place where Americans undertook significant economic activity, The Diplomacy of Involvementwill be an important aid for seasoned scholars, as well as an excellent introduction for the novice
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1949: The Far East and Australasia
Author: U.S. Policy in the Far East: U.S. policy and Japan. The Korean War and peace negotiations. South Asian and related problems
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : East Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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