Asia Pacific in the Age of Globalization

284 Pages·2015·1.093 MB·English

by  Robert David Johnson (eds.)

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Gregor Benton and Edmund Terence Gomez
THE CHINESE IN BRITAIN, 1800–PRESENT
Economy, Transnationalism and Identity
Manu Bhagavan
INDIA AND THE QUEST FOR ONE WORLD
The Peacemakers
Sugata Bose and Kris Manjapra (editors)
COSMOPOLITAN THOUGHT ZONES
South Asia and the Global Circulation of Ideas
Sebastian Conrad and Dominic Sachsenmaier (editors)
COMPETING VISIONS OF WORLD ORDER
Global Moments and Movements, 1880s–1930s
Martin Conway and Kiran Klaus Patel (editors)
EUROPEANIZATION IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Historical Approaches
Joy Damousi and Mariano Ben Plotkin (editors)
THE TRANSNATIONAL UNCONSCIOUS
Essays in the History of Psychoanalysis and Transnationalism
Desley Deacon, Penny Russell and Angela Woollacott (editors)
TRANSNATIONAL LIVES
Biographies of Global Modernity, 1700–present
Jonathan Gantt
IRISH TERRORISM IN THE ATLANTIC COMMUNITY, 1865–1922
Abigail Green and Vincent Viaene (editors)
RELIGIOUS INTERNATIONALS IN THE MODERN WORLD
Pawel Goral
COLD WAR RIVALRY AND THE PERCEPTION OF THE AMERICAN WEST
Per Högselius
RED GAS
Russia and the Origins of European Energy Dependence
Eric Hotta
PAN-ASIANISM AND JAPAN’S WAR, 1931–1945
Martin Klimbe and Joachim Scharloth (editors)
1968 IN EUROPE
A History of Protest and Activism, 1956–1977
Erika Kuhlman
RECONSTRUCTING PATRIARCHY AFTER THE GREAT WAR
Women, Gender and Postwar Reconciliation between Nations
Robert David Johnson (editor)
ASIA PACIFIC IN THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION
Deep Kanta Lahiri Choudhury
TELEGRAPHIC IMPERIALISM
Crisis and Panic in the Indian Empire, c. 1830–1920
Bruce Mazlish
THE IDEA OF HUMANITY IN THE GLOBAL ERA
Nicola Pizzolato
CHALLENGING GLOBAL CAPITALISM
Labor Migration, Radical Struggle, and Urban Change in Detroit and Turin
Glenda Sluga
THE NATION, PSYCHOLOGY, AND INTERNATIONAL POLITICS, 1870–1919
Giles Scott-Smith
WESTERN ANTI-COMMUNISM AND THE INTERDOC NETWORK
Cold War Internationale
Mark Tilse
TRANSNATIONALISM IN THE PRUSSIAN EAST
From National Confl ict to Synthesis, 1871–1914
Luc van Dongen, Stéphanie Roulin, and Giles Scott-Smith (editors)
TRANSNATIONAL ANTI-COMMUNISM AND THE COLD WAR
Agents, Activities, and Networks
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Asia Pacific in the Age
of Globalization
Edited by
Robert David Johnson
Professor of History, Brooklyn College, CUNY, USA
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Contents
Series Editor’s Preface vii
Notes on Contributors ix
Introduction 1
Robert David Johnson
Part I Global Transformations—Historical and
Contemporary Perspectives
1 Asia Pacific Relations and the Globalization of
the Environment 13
Nick Kapur
2 The Community of Continents 24
Kenneth Weisbrode
3 Power across the Pacific 31
Frederick S. Calhoun
4 Trajectories of Nationalisms in East Asia 42
Walter A. Skya
5 Ike: The American Internationalist 52
Carl W. Reddel
6 Women Leaders in Diplomacy across the Pacific 62
Michael A. Schneider
7 The Fragile Stability in the Asia-Pacific: Four Future Histories 72
Hugh De Santis and James P. Przystup
8 Globalism’s Conundrum 87
Anne R. Pierce
9 European Cooperation as a Questionable Model for Security
in the Pacific Region 99
Ruud Janssens
Part II Trans-Pacific History and Memory
10 Human Rights: Across the Pacific Both Ways? 111
David Webster
11 The Role of Shared Experiences in Studying
Sino-American Relations 122
Xu Guoqi
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12 The East Asia Community and the United States 133
Izumi Hirobe
13 Japan’s Transition from “Greater East Asia” to
a Trans-Pacific Order, 1931–1960 143
Urs Matthias Zachmann
14 Across the Pacific: Observations on the 21st-Century
U.S.–China Student Movement 152
Yelong Han
15 Alaska, Hawai’i, and the United States as a Pacific Nation 162
Robert David Johnson
16 Across the Pacific and Back to Vietnam:
Transnational Legacies and Memories of the Vietnam War 172
Edward Miller
17 The 1957 Taiwan Riots: Cultural Politics in U.S.–Taiwan
Relations in the 1950s 185
See Heng Teow and Yang Huei Pang
Part III Culture and Internationalism
18 Religion, Ideology, Culture and the Integration/Disintegration
of the Pacific World 201
Evan Dawley
19 Emotions in Intercultural Relations 212
Barbara Keys
20 The Rise of Cultural Diplomacy in U.S.–East Asia Relations 221
Terry Lautz
21 Beyond the Call of Duty: Cosmopolitan Education
and the Origins of Asian–American Women’s Medicine 231
Steffen Rimner
22 Leningrad Comes to America: The 1942 American Premiere
of the Shostakovich Seventh Symphony 245
Jonathan Rosenberg
23 Culture and Anti-Imperialism 259
Frank Ninkovich
Index 271
Series Editor’s Preface
This book appears at a time when the future shape of the Asia Pacific region
is one of the most pressing issues facing the international community. As
China rises, Japan seeks a new role, and the United States declares a “pivot”
toward Asia, the region is reinventing itself at a time when the Cold War has
finally thawed and temperatures in the region may be rising.
At a time of tensions about the future, the past is one source of fuel for
political opportunists on all sides. On different sides of the Pacific Rim,
there are widely varying views on the significance of the shared history of
the region in the often violent modern era, particularly, but not only, as it
relates to the experience of World War II.
This volume subjects the prejudices and assumptions that continue to
haunt the Asia Pacific region to rigorous scrutiny. The big themes are all
here—regionalism and internationalism, security and identity—but the
approaches taken are often unexpected and revealing. Environmentalism,
feminism, and religion are not topics that are often linked to the interna-
tional history of the Asia Pacific, yet here they appear in guises that provide
provocative and powerful new readings of the area’s history. Topics and
individuals too, that may have seemed familiar, reappear in new light,
whether it is President Eisenhower or the regime in South Vietnam. And
memory and culture also figure significantly in this collection. In recent
years, it has become apparent that unquiet ghosts continue to haunt the
region and that understanding the variant ways in which the peoples of the
Asia Pacific remember and mourn the often-tragic history of their societies
is central to understanding their present and future. It is also evident that
international relations does not operate in a realist vacuum: at a time when
the term “soft power” has become almost too familiar, the idea of culture as
a shaping factor in relations between peoples and states has become more
relevant than ever.
How appropriate, then, that this volume should be, as well as an inno-
vative piece of scholarship, a tribute to the academic career of Akira Iriye.
For if there is one scholar who epitomizes the bridging of the gap between
the United States and Asia, it is surely Iriye. For some half a century, Iriye’s
work has been at the cutting edge of the interpretation of the Asia Pacific
relationship, moving from international history through the insertion of
culture into our understanding of internationalism, to the emergence of
transnationalism as a framework. The work collected here is a powerful
tribute to one of the most transformative and influential scholars of history
in the academy. (I should note, of course, that Iriye is one of the co-editors
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of the series in which this volume appears, but that he has stood aside from
direct involvement in this particular book.)
This volume is nothing less than a comprehensive reassessment of the his-
tory of the Pacific Rim and the interactions between its nations and societies
in the modern era. Historians should tackle it, of course, but it would also
make refreshing—and essential—reading for those involved in contempo-
rary geopolitics, at a time when the past of the Asia Pacific will have a crucial
role in shaping the futures of all us, in the region and outside it.
Rana Mitter
Oxford, June 2014
Notes on Contributors
Frederick S. Calhoun earned his Ph.D. in American history from the
University of Chicago, studying under Akira Iriye. He spent his career w orking
for the federal government, initially as the first historian for the United
States Marshals Service, then moving into the field of threat m anagement.
Calhoun analyzed threats and assaults on federal judicial officials and
served as the principal architect in developing the threat assessment process
used by the Marshals Service for assessing risks to federal judicial officials.
After the September 11 attacks, Calhoun transferred to the newly created
Transportation Security Administration. At TSA, he set up and managed the
agency’s national Workplace Violence Prevention Program. Calhoun is the
author of twelve books covering a variety of subjects ranging from Woodrow
Wilson’s uses of force, histories of federal law enforcement, and practical
guides to conducting threat management.
Evan Dawley is Assistant Professor of History at Goucher College. His
primary research is on Taiwan, and the formation of Taiwanese identi-
ties, from the late nineteenth through the middle twentieth centuries. He
is preparing a monograph on this subject, tentatively titled “Becoming
Taiwanese: Ethnic Identity at the Border of China and Japan,” and has
co-edited The Decade of the Great War: Japan and the Wider World in the 1910s
(2014). He holds a Ph.D. in History from Harvard University, and has also
taught at Reed College, George Washington University, and Georgetown
University. He has also worked with the Office of the Historian of the U.S.
Department of State.
Hugh De Santis is Adjunct Professor of Political Science in the Elliott School
of International Affairs at George Washington University and a senior
analyst at Leidos, Inc., a defense contractor. A former career officer in the
Department of State, he served on the Policy Planning Staff of George
Shultz, among other assignments. He has also held senior positions at
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the RAND Corporation, and
the National War College, where he chaired the Department of National
Security Strategy. As president of Globe Strat, Inc. from 2001 to 2007, a
consultancy that provided strategic analysis to the government and private
sector, he served as senior advisor for regional Asian affairs at CIA. He has
published widely on international relations and has been a frequent com-
mentator in the print and broadcast media. His first book, The Diplomacy of
Silence, received the Stuart L. Bernath Prize from the Society of Historians of
American Foreign Relations.
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