Ruptured Histories - War, Memory, and the Post-Cold War in Asia

Informationen zum Autor Sheila Miyoshi Jager is the author of Brothers at War: The Unending Conflict in Korea and Narratives of Nation-Building in Korea: The Genealogy of Patriotism . A specialist on modern East Asian and Korean history and politics, she has written for the New York Times , Politico , and the Boston Globe . She is Professor of East Asian Studies at Oberlin College. Rana Mitter is the author of several books, including A Bitter Revolution: China’s Struggle with the Modern World and Forgotten Ally: China’s World War II, 1937–1945 , named a Book of the Year in The Economist and Financial Times . He has commented on Asia for the BBC, NPR, CNN, the New York Times , the History Channel, and the World Economic Forum at Davos. Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China at the University of Oxford, he is also a Fellow of the British Academy and an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. Klappentext New forms of nationalism have affected American policy in the Pacific! challenging the post-communist world order. This book explores the wars of the modern era! illuminating regional and global changes in East Asia! and underscoring the need to redefine the Cold War language that still continues to inform U.S.-East Asian relations. Zusammenfassung New forms of nationalism have affected American policy in the Pacific! challenging the post-communist world order. This book explores the wars of the modern era! illuminating regional and global changes in East Asia! and underscoring the need to redefine the Cold War language that still continues to inform U.S.-East Asian relations.

Product details

• Authors: Sheila Jager, Sheila Miyoshi Mitter Jager
• Assisted by: Sheila Miyoshi Jager (Editor), Jager Sheila Miyoshi (Editor), Rana Mitter (Editor)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.05.2007
• EAN: 9780674024717
• ISBN: 978-0-674-02471-7
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 32 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, HISTORY / Asia / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, East Asia, Far East, Asian History