Introduction: Understanding Modern East Asia
Part One War and Revolution
1. Imperial Powers and pre-WWII Japan
2. The Asian-Pacific War (1937-1945)
3. Cold War Japan: Occupation and Reform (1945-1951)
4. The Nationalists vs. the Communists in China
5. The People’s Republic and Taiwan (1949-1957)
Part Two The East vs. the West
6. The Korean War (1950-1953)
7. China and the First Indochina War
8. New Japan (1952-1996)
9. The Communist Cold War and Vietnam (1958-1975)
Part Three From Bi-polar, Triangle, to Global
10. The Cultural Revolution and Sino-US Rapprochement
11. China’s Reforming Movement
12. Two Koreas and the Sino-Vietnamese Border War
13. Surviving the Cold War: China’s Globalization
Conclusion: East Asia in the Twenty-first Century
Biography
Xiaobing Li is Professor and Chair in the Department of History and Director of the Western Pacific Institute at the University of Central Oklahoma.
