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International Relations and A Partnership for Disorder
- Author(s):
- Xiaoyuan Liu
- Editor(s):
- Tom Durwood (see profile)
- Date:
- 2011
- Subject(s):
- World War (1939-1945), China, Twentieth century, Twenty-first century
- Item Type:
- Online publication
- Tag(s):
- Empire, World War II, China, modern (post-1911)
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/f4bw-c648
- Abstract:
- When I searched dissertation titles to find topics that relate to empire, I ran across a thesis entitled A Partnership for Disorder: China, the United States and their policies for a postwar disposition of the Japanese Empire 1941-1945. When I contacted the author, Xiaoyuan Liu, I found that the thesis had been turned into a book. On our website you will find a tantalizing (to me) excerpt from the book’s opening chapter and, below, an interview with Prof. Liu on the specifics and the legacy of that brief partnership. It is a fascinating moment in the recent past when the two nations worked closely together. One of the partnership’s false assumptions, according to the author, was the idea that a government can speak for an entire nation. As a result of this fiction, the two countries’ grand plans for the Pacific fell apart almost immediately. China itself fell into four years of civil war which changed everything about Asia; other revolutions drastically altered the entire Pacific region. America was left with an inflated plan on paper that bore little relevance to political realities. Download the resource to learn more!
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Online publication
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 4 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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