LEADER 04682nam 22006254 450 001 9910787042703321 005 20140902015259.0 010 $a0-8223-2276-5 010 $a0-8223-9746-3 024 7 $a10.1515/9780822397465 035 $a(CKB)3710000000238165 035 $a(OCoLC)893683436 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10930095 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001378513 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11829894 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001378513 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11339447 035 $a(PQKB)10239954 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3008077 035 $a(OCoLC)1139394914 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse78901 035 $a889527242 035 $a(DE-B1597)553765 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780822397465 035 $a(OCoLC)1229161197 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000238165 100 $a20140828d1999 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aParallax visions $emaking sense of American-East Asian relations at the end of the century /$fBruce Cumings 210 1$aDurham, NC :$cDuke University Press,$d1999. 215 $a1 online resource (305 p.) 225 1 $aAsia-Pacific 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-322-14100-2 311 $a0-8223-2924-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [227]-264) and index. 327 $tArchaeology, descent, emergence : American mythology and East Asian reality --$tEast wind, rain [;] red wind [;] black rain : the United States-Japan war, beginning and end --$tColonial formations and deformations : Korea, Taiwan, and Vietnam --$tCivil society and democracy in the United States and East Asia --$tNuclear imbalance of terror : the American surveillance regime and North Korea's nuclear program --$tThe world shakes China --$tBoundary displacement : the state, the foundations, and international and area studies during and after the Cold War --$tEast Asia and the United States : Double vision and hegemonic emergence. 330 $aIn a work that synthesizes crucial developments in international relations at the close of the twentieth century, Bruce Cumings?a leading historian of contemporary East Asia?provides a nuanced understanding of how the United States has loomed over the modern history and culture of East Asia. By offering correctives to widely held yet largely inaccurate assessments of the affairs of this region, Parallax Visions shows how relations between the United States, Japan, Vietnam, North and South Korea, China, and Taiwan have been structured by their perceptions and misperceptions of each other.Using information based on thirty years of research, Cumings offers a new perspective on a wide range of issues that originated with the cold war?with particular focus on the possibly inappropriate collaboration between universities, foundations, and intelligence agencies. Seeking to explode the presuppositions that Americans usually bring to the understanding of our relations with East Asia, the study ranges over much of the history of the twentieth century in East Asian?American relations?Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Korean War, and more recent difficulties in U.S. relations with China and Japan. Cumings also rebuts U.S. media coverage of North Korea?s nuclear diplomacy in the 1990s and examines how experiences of colonialism and postcolonialism have had varying effects on economic development in each of these countries. Positing that the central defining experience of twentieth-century East Asia has been its entanglement first with British and Japanese imperialism, and then with the United States, Cumings ends with a discussion of how the situation could change over the next century as the economic and political global clout of the United States declines.Illuminating the sometimes self-deluded ideology of cold war America, Parallax Visions will engage historians, political scientists, and students and scholars of comparative politics and social theory, as well as readers interested in questions of modernity and the role of the United States in shaping the destinies of modernizing societies in Asia. 410 0$aAsia-Pacific. 606 $aHISTORY / United States / General$2bisacsh 607 $aEast Asia$xRelations$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xRelations$zEast Asia 615 7$aHISTORY / United States / General. 676 $a303.48/27305 700 $aCumings$b Bruce$f1943-$0527235 801 0$bNDD 801 1$bNDD 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787042703321 996 $aParallax visions$93707209 997 $aUNINA