Information Regimes During the Cold War in East Asia

Morgan and his contributors develop the concept of the Information Regime as a way to understand the use, abuse, and control of information in East Asia during the Cold war period.

List of contents

Part One: Diplomacy, Public Diplomacy, and Espionage 1. Behind the Curtains: How Soviet Intelligence Masters and Japanese Journalists Brought About Soviet-Japan Diplomatic Normalization—Without the Return of the Northern Territories 2. Saving China, Losing China: The Transformation of a Prewar to Cold War Information Regime 3. Piecing Together the "Broken Dialogue": Ambassador Douglas MacArthur and the Controversy over Professor Edwin O. Reischauer’s Foreign Affairs Article Part Two: Knowledge Networks and Scholarship 4. Kyōsei Renkō (Forced Mobilization): Pak Kyǒng-sik and Zainichi Identity as Inspired by North Korea 5. The Effect of Chinese Communism on an Australian in British Malaya, 1950–1971: Escaping Ideology by Nearly "Going Native" Part Three: Ideologies, Religion, and Culture 6. Catholicism and the Cold War in Japan 7. The Cold War as Gestalt for North Korea as a Diplomatic Subject 8. The Club of Rome in East Asia: U.S.-Led Population-Control Information Regimes and Waging the Cold War in the Far East

About the author

Jason Morgan is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Global Studies at Reitaku University, Japan

Summary

Morgan and his contributors develop the concept of the Information Regime as a way to understand the use, abuse, and control of information in East Asia during the Cold war period.

Product details

• Authors: Jason Morgan, Jason (Reitaku University Morgan
• Assisted by: Jason Morgan (Editor), Jason (Reitaku University Morgan (Editor), Morgan Jason (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9780367499433
• ISBN: 978-0-367-49943-3
• No. of pages: 190
• Series: The Cold War in Asia
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science; Media Studies, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, HISTORY / Asia / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, HISTORY / Historiography, HISTORY / Asia / China, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, HISTORY / Asia / Korea, Politics & government, Politics and government, East Asia, Far East, Asian History, The Cold War, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), c 1945 to c 1990 (the Cold War period), Cold wars and proxy conflicts