The Cold War in East Asia / Xiaobing Li.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: understanding modern East Asia -- Part I. War and revolution -- Imperial powers and pre-WWII Japan -- The Asian-Pacific War (1937-1945) -- Cold War Japan: occupation and reform (1945-1951) -- The Nationalists vs. the Communists in China -- The People's Republic and Taiwan (1949-1957) -- Part II. The east vs. the west -- The Korean War (1950-1953) -- China and the First Indochina War -- New Japan (1952-1996) -- The Communist Cold War and Vietnam (1958-1975) -- Part III. From bi-polar, triangle, to global -- The Cultural Revolution and Sino-US Rapprochement -- China's reforming movement -- Two Koreas and the Sino-Vietnamese Border War -- Surviving the Cold War: China's globalization -- Conclusion: East Asia in the twenty-first century.