American, Chinese, and Japanese perspectives on wartime Asia, 1931-1949

644 Pages·1990·1.34 MB·English

by  Akira Iriye

American, Chinese, and Japanese
Perspectives On Wartime Asia, 1931-1949
title:
America in the Modern World
(Unnumbered)
author: Iriye, Akira.
publisher: Scholarly Resources, Inc.
isbn10 | asin: 084202347X
print isbn13: 9780842023474
ebook isbn13: 9780585196305
language: English
East Asia--Foreign relations--United States,
United States--Foreign relations--East Asia,
subject
United States--Foreign relations--1933-
1945.
publication date: 1990
lcc: DS518.8.A857 1990eb
ddc: 327/.095
East Asia--Foreign relations--United States,
United States--Foreign relations--East Asia,
subject:
United States--Foreign relations--1933-
1945.
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American, Chinese, and Japanese Perspectives
on Wartime Asia 1931-1949
Page ii
America in the Modern World
Studies in International History
Warren F. Kimball
Series Editor
Professor of History, Rutgers University
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American, Chinese, and Japanese Perspectives
on Wartime Asia 1931-1949
Akira Iriye
and
Warren Cohen
Editors
A Scholarly Resources Imprint
WILMINGTON, DELAWARE
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American, Chinese, and Japanese perspectives on wartime
Asia, 1931-1949 / Akira Iriye and Warren Cohen, editors.
p. cm. - (America in the modern world)
ISBN 0-8420-2347-X
1. Asia-Foreign relations-United States. 2. United
States-Foreign relations-Asia. 3. Asia-History-20th
century. 4. United States-Foreign relations-20th century.
I. Iriye, Akira. II. Cohen, Warren I. III. Series.
DS33. 4. U6A63 1990
327' .095-dc20 89-70141
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Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Contributors ix
Introduction xi
by Akira Iriye
American Leaders and East Asia, 1931-1938 1
Warren Cohen
A Test of the Open Door Policy: America's Silver Policy 29
and Its Effects on East Asia, 1934-1937
Wang Xi
The United States and East Asia in the mid-1930s: The 73
Cotton and Wheat Loan
Chihiro Hosoya
Japanese Approaches to China in the 1930s: Two 93
Alternatives
Katsumi Usui
Businesses, Governments, and War in China, 1931-1949 117
Sherman Cochran
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Risks of War, 1939-1941 147
Waldo Heinrichs
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The Emergence of U.S. Influence in Southeast Asia 179
Gary R. Hess
Japan against the ABCD Powers 223
Akira Iriye
American Perspectives on the Origins of the Cold War in 243
East Asia, 1945-1949
Robert L. Messer
China and East Asia in America's Global Strategy, 1931- 269
1949
Luo Rongqu
Index 293