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Information Regimes During the Cold War in East Asia

206 Pages

by Routledge

206 Pages

by Routledge

206 Pages

by Routledge

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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. During the Cold War, war itself was changing, as was statecraft. Information emerged as the most valuable commodity, becoming the key component of societies across the globe. This was especially true in East Asia,... Read more

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

Takizawa Ichirō

2. Saving China, Losing China: The Transformation of a Prewar to Cold War Information Regime

Ezaki Michio and Jason Morgan

3. Piecing Together the "Broken Dialogue": Ambassador Douglas Macarthur and yhe Controversy over Professor Edwin O. Reischauer’s Foreign Affairs Article

Robert D. Eldridge

PART TWO Knowledge Networks and Scholarship

4. Kyōsei Renkō (Forced Mobilization): Pak Kyǒng-Sik and Zainichi Identity as Inspired by North Korea

Chizuko T. Allen

5. The Effect of Chinese Communism on an Australian in British Malaya, 1950–1971: Escaping Ideology by Nearly "Going Native"

Anders Corr

PART THREE Ideologies, Religion, and Culture

6. Catholicism and the Cold War in Japan

Kevin Doak

7. The Cold War as Gestalt for North Korea as a Diplomatic Subject

David A. T Izzard

8. The Club of Rome in East Asia: U.S.-Led Population-Control Information Regimes and Waging the Cold War in the Far East

Jason Morgan