East Asia and the modern international order : from imperialism to the Cold War /
"Stephan Haggard and David C. Kang bring together historians and political scientists to re-examine fourteen events in twentieth-century East Asian history that shaped world and regional politics. Casestudies highlight the East Asian experience of empire, war and independence movements and shed...
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Cambridge, United Kingdom :
Cambridge University Press,
2026.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : East Asia in the world : from imperialism to the Cold War / Stephan Haggard and David Kang
- The myth of the San Francisco system : understanding post-World War II East Asian order / Evelyn Goh
- Survival through reforms : Siam and its escape from colonialism / Pongkwan Sawasdipakdi
- The Russo-Japanese War, 1904-5 / Scott Wolford
- The Chinese Exclusion Acts / Enze Han and DG Kim
- Race and great power politics : the Japanese racial equality proposal of 1919 / Erez Manela
- Reform, revolution, and state failure inearly twentieth century China / Richard Horowitz
- The second Sino-Japanese War and its aftermath, 1931-1965 / Amy King
- Japanese expansionism and the 'Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere' / JeremyYellen
- Decentering the Cold War from the division of Korea / David Fields
- The first and second Taiwan Straits crises / Hsiao-tingLin
- Alliances, state-building, and development in Asia / James Lee
- Credibility and the Vietnam War in the era of incomplete US hegemony / Khong Yuen Foong
- Nationalism and Anglo-American neo-colonialism in Southeast Asia, 1945-1965 / Ngoei Wen-Qing
- Mandates, trusteeship, and decolonization in the North Pacific : balancing self-determination, development, and security / Joanne Wallis and Jack Corbett
- Conclusion : a newly-dynamic East Asian international order / Andrew Coe and Scott Wolford.