Parallax Visions Making Sense of American-East Asian Relations at the End of the Century
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Duke Univ Pr
- Publish date: 06/01/1999
Using information based on thirty years of research, Cumings offers a new perspective on a wide range of issues that originated with the cold war -- with particular focus on the possibly inappropriate collaboration between universities, foundations, and intelligence agencies. Seeking to explode the presuppositions that Americans usually bring to the understanding of our relations with East Asia, the study ranges over much of the history of the twentieth century in East Asian-American relations -- Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Korean War, and more recent difficulties in U.S. relations with China and Japan. Cumings also rebuts U.S. media coverage of North Korea's nuclear diplomacy in the 1990s and examines how experiences of colonialism and postcolonialism have had varying effects on economic development in each of these countries. Positing that the central defining experience of twentieth-century East Asia has been its entanglement first with British and Japanese imperialism, and then with the United States, Cumings ends with a discussion of how the situation could change over thenext century as the economic and political global clout of the United States declines.
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