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Taiwan, the United States, and the Hidden History of the Cold War in Asia

Divided Allies

By: Hsiao-Ting Lin

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Taiwan, the United States, and the Hidden History of the Cold War in Asia

Divided Allies

By: Hsiao-Ting Lin

This book explores the challenges which faced the United States and Taiwanese alliance during the Cold War, addressing a wide range of events and influences of the period between the 1950s and 1970s. Tackling seven main topics to outline the fluctuations of the U.S.–Taiwan relationship, this volume highlights the impact of the mainland counteroffensive, the offshore islands, Tibet, Taiwan’s secret operations in Asia, Taiwan’s Soviet and nuclear gambits, Chinese representation in the United Nations, and the Vietnam War. Utilizing multinational archival research, particularly the newly available materials from Taiwan and the United States, to reevaluate Taiwan’s foreign policy during the Cold War, revealing a pragmatic and opportunistic foreign policy disguised in nationalistic rhetoric. Moreover, this study represents a departure from previous scholarship, emphasizing the dictatorial and incompetent nature of the Chinese Nationalist regime, to provide fresh insights into the nature of U.S.–Taiwan relations. Presenting a revisionist view of one of the strongest bilateral relationships of the Cold War, this will be an insightful resource for scholars and students of Chinese and East Asia History, Cold War History, Asian Studies, and International Relations.

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Routledge

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1000580830

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9781000580839

Accidental State

Chiang Kai-shek, the United States, and the Making of Taiwan

By: Hsiao-ting Lin

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Accidental State

Chiang Kai-shek, the United States, and the Making of Taiwan

By: Hsiao-ting Lin

Accidental State explores the historical formation in the late 1940s and early 1950s of a de facto state on Taiwan separate from the de facto state ruling the Chinese mainland. The peculiar status of the Republic of China on Taiwan as an independent state but not quite a nation-state is important for our understanding of modern East Asia. Too often we have tended to view the existence of the two political entities across the Taiwan Strait as a logical and most likely consequence of the Chinese civil war fought bitterly after World War II between Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong. This book offers a new historical outlook, arguing that the making of the separate Taiwan state was by no means the result of deliberate forethought and planning either by the United States, the Nationalists, or the Communists. The process of this statemaking was intriguing, contingent, and inadvertent, and was never intended when the fate of Taiwan was first planned by FDR, Chiang Kai-shek, and Winston Churchill in the middle of World War II."--Provided by publisher.

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0674969642

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9780674969643

Modern China's Ethnic Frontiers

A Journey to the West

By: Hsiao-ting Lin

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Modern China's Ethnic Frontiers

A Journey to the West

By: Hsiao-ting Lin

The purpose of this book is to examine the strategies and practices of the Han Chinese Nationalists vis-à-vis post-Qing China’s ethnic minorities, as well as to explore the role they played in the formation of contemporary China’s Central Asian frontier territoriality and border security. The Chinese Revolution of 1911, initiated by Sun Yat-sen, liberated the Han Chinese from the rule of the Manchus and ended the Qing dynastic order that had existed for centuries. With the collapse of the Qing dynasty, the Mongols and the Tibetans, who had been dominated by the Manchus, took advantage of the revolution and declared their independence. Under the leadership of Yuan Shikai, the new Chinese Republican government in Peking in turn proclaimed the similar "five-nationality Republic" proposed by the Revolutionaries as a model with which to sustain the deteriorating Qing territorial order. The shifting politics of the multi-ethnic state during the regime transition and the role those politics played in defining the identity of the modern Chinese state were issues that would haunt the new Chinese Republic from its inception to its downfall. Modern China's Ethnic Frontiers will be of interest to students and scholars of Chinese history, Asian history and modern history.

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223

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Routledge

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1136923934

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9781136923937

Tibet and Nationalist China's Frontier

Intrigues and Ethnopolitics, 1928-49

By: Hsiao-ting Lin

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Tibet and Nationalist China's Frontier

Intrigues and Ethnopolitics, 1928-49

By: Hsiao-ting Lin

In this ground-breaking study, Hsiao Ting Lin demonstrates that theChinese frontier was the subject neither of concerted aggression on thepart of a centralized and indoctrinated Chinese government nor of anideologically driven nationalist ethnopolitics. Instead, Nationalistsovereignty over Tibet and other border regions was the result ofrhetorical grandstanding by Chiang Kai-shek and his regime. Tibet andNationalist China's Frontier makes a crucial contribution to theunderstanding of past and present China-Tibet relations. A counterpointto erroneous historical assumptions, this book will change the wayTibetologists and modern Chinese historians frame future studies of theregion.

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285

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University of British Columbia Press

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0774813024

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9780774813020

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Taiwan, the United States, and the Hidden History of the Cold War in Asia

Taiwan, the United States, and the Hidden History of the Cold War in Asia

Accidental State

Accidental State

Modern China's Ethnic Frontiers

Modern China's Ethnic Frontiers

Tibet and Nationalist China's Frontier

Tibet and Nationalist China's Frontier

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