Asian history

Preface

List of Illustrations

Introduction / Hyung-A Kim and Clark W. Sorensen

Part One | Development

1. Heavy and Chemical Industrialization, 1973-1979: South Korea’s Homeland Security Measures / Hyung A-Kim

2. POSCO: Building an Institution / Seok-Man Yoon

3. The Cold War and the Political Economy of the Park Chung Hee Regime / Tadashi Kimiya

SPECIAL ESSAY

4. How to Think about the Park Chung Hee Era / Nak-Chung P

A Note on Chinese Names
Introduction
1. China: Lost or Won?
2. The Struggle for Manchuria Begins: August 1945-June 1946
3. Nationalist Offensive, Communist Reaction: South Manchuria, July-November 1946
4. Breaking the Nationalist Offensive: The Three Expeditions/Four Defenses Campaign, December 1946-March 1947
5. The Summer Offensive and the Wedemeyer Mission, May-August 1947
6. Encircling the Cities: the Autumn and Winter O

Man vereinfacht die Dinge tatsächlich nur ein kleines bisschen, wenn man sie so zusammenfasst: Alles hängt an Taiwan

Es ist ein Konflikt, der die Welt in Atem hält: Die kommunistische Führung in Peking betrachtet Taiwan als »abtrünnige Provinz«, die mit dem Mutterland vereinigt werden muss. Taipeh wiederum will seine faktische Unabhängigkeit und die hart erkämpfte Demokratie bewahren. Als führender Chip-Hersteller und aufgrund seiner Lage im westlichen Pazifik besi

An infamous Chinese femme fatale, in history and fiction

Zhao Feiyan (45–1 BCE), the second empress appointed by Emperor Cheng of the Han dynasty (207 BCE–220 CE), was born in slavery and trained in the performing arts, a background that made her appointment as empress highly controversial. Subsequent persecution by her political enemies eventually led to her being forced to commit suicide. After her death, her reputation was marred by accusations of vicious scheming, murder of

Die unrühmliche Wahrheit über die britische Herrschaft in Indien – erstmals erzählt aus indischer Sicht.

Das Britische Kolonialreich präsentierte sich nach außen hin als aufgeklärter Despotismus im Namen des Guten und zum Wohle der Beherrschten. Gestützt auf eine Fülle von Fakten demontiert Shashi Tharoor diese weitverbreitete Legende. Das Empire feuerte Kanonen gegen Aufständische ab, massakrierte unbewaffnete Demonstranten, schuf einen institutionalisierten Rassismus

Caste, class, and development converge in a booming metropolis

Over the course of the twentieth century, Bombay’s population grew twentyfold as the city became increasingly industrialized and cosmopolitan. Yet beneath a veneer of modernity, old prejudices endured, including the treatment of the Dalits. Even as Indians engaged with aspects of modern life, including the Marxist discourse of class, caste distinctions played a pivotal role in determining who was excluded from the ci

"John Shepherd confronts the hypothesis that the Qing conquest government attempted to proscribe footbinding in China soon after it captured Beijing in 1644, and that these policies produced a reaction among Chinese elites that made footbinding as a marker of Chinese identity in the conquest state, eventually accruing even more ideological significance in relation to subordination of women and anxieties over economic competition.  Shepherd re-examines the evidence for the Qing period and

The city of Qufu, in north China’s Shandong Province, is famous as the hometown of Kong Qiu (551–479 BCE)—known as Confucius in English and as Kongzi or Kong Fuzi in Chinese. In The Kongs of Qufu, Christopher Agnew chronicles the history of the sage’s direct descendants from the inception of the hereditary title Duke for Fulfilling the Sage in 1055 CE through its dissolution in 1935, after the fall of China’s dynastic system in 1911.

Drawing on archival materials, Agnew reveals

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
1 Staying firm: John F. Kennedy’s China policy, 1961-1963
2 Holes in the dam: French recognition and the Chinese nuclear test, 1963-1964
3 In Vietnam’s shadow: the reaffirmation of U.S. China policy, 1964-1965
4 The irony of Vietnam: the emergence of a two-pronged China policy, 1965-1966
5 Bridge building in limbo: the impact of the Cultural Revolution, 1966-1967
6 Testing the waters: an aborted policy review and closin

Daniel-Dylan Böhmer, geboren 1975, ist Redakteur für Außenpolitik bei der Welt. Für die Recherchen zu diesem Buch verbrachte er drei Monate im afghanisch-pakistanischen Grenzgebiet.