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

ISBN-13: 9781032134994 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 288 str.

Hsiao-Ting Lin

Opis

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 70s.

Spis treści

List of figures

Acknowledgments

Acronyms and abbreviations

Glossary of names and terms

Maps

Introduction

1 The offshore islands

2 The mainland counteroffensive

3 Tibet

4 The Cold War in Asia

5 The United Nations

6 The Vietnam War

7 The Soviet and the nuclear gambits

Postscript

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Hsiao-ting Lin is a Research Fellow and Curator of the Modern China Collection at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, USA. He has published extensively on modern Chinese and Taiwanese politics, history, and ethnic minorities, including Accidental State: Chiang Kai-shek, the United States, and the Making of Taiwan (2016); Modern China’s Ethnic Frontiers: A Journey to the West (2011); and Tibet and Nationalist China’s Frontier: Intrigues and Ethnopolitics, 1928–49 (2006).