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Analyzing the economic, strategic, and cultural elements that shape
the attraction--and the friction--between the Pacific and Atlantic
communities, this book integrates European perspectives into a
discussion that has traditionally been dominated by Asian and U.S.
voices. The authors take as their theme the uncertainty created by
the Pacific Rim's new role in shifting the international balances
of political and economic power. Economic uncertainty has been
fueled by Asia's trade surpluses with Western Europe and the United
States, with the West viewing its system of free world trade as
working to the greater advantage of the Asia Pacific. Strategic
uncertainty pivots on the U.S.-USSR superpower rivalry and on the
growing influence of Japan and the PRC on the strategic balance in
the Pacific Basin. A more subtle and powerful constraint surfaces
in the realm of culture--in differing perceptions among the people
of the Asia Pacific and the West concerning liberal values and the
liberal underpinnings of the present system of world trade.
Analyzing the economic, strategic, and cultural elements that shape
the attraction--and the friction--between the Pacific and Atlantic
communities, this book integrates European perspectives into a
discussion that has traditionally been dominated by Asian and U.S.
voices. The authors take as their theme the uncertainty created by
the Pacific Rim's new role in shifting the international balances
of political and economic power. Economic uncertainty has been
fueled by Asia's trade surpluses with Western Europe and the United
States, with the West viewing its system of free world trade as
working to the greater advantage of the Asia Pacific. Strategic
uncertainty pivots on the U.S.-USSR superpower rivalry and on the
growing influence of Japan and the PRC on the strategic balance in
the Pacific Basin. A more subtle and powerful constraint surfaces
in the realm of culture--in differing perceptions among the people
of the Asia Pacific and the West concerning liberal values and the
liberal underpinnings of the present system of world trade.
In contrast to the many books that use military, diplomatic, and
historic language in analyzing the Korean War, this book takes a
cultural approach that emphasizes the human dimension of the war,
an approach that especially features Korean voices. There are
chapters on Korean art on the war, translations into English of
Korean poetry by Korean soldiers, and American soldier poetry on
the war. There is a photographic essay on the war by combat
journalist and Pulitzer Prize winning photographer Max Desfor.
Another chapter includes and analyzes songs on the Korean War -
Korean, American, and Chinese - that illuminate the many complex
memories of the war. There is a discussion of Korean films on the
war and a chapter on Korean War POWs and their contested memories.
More than any other nonfiction book on the war, this one shows us
the human face of tragedy for Americans, Chinese, and most
especially Koreans. June 2000 was the fiftieth anniversary of the
outbreak of the Korean War; this moving volume is intended as a
commemoration of it.
This book brings a fresh perspective to three wars the United
States fought in Asia between 1941 and 1975 - the Pacific War, the
Korean War, and the Vietnam War - by focusing on the human
dimension of war as experienced by those, on all sides, who fought,
lived through, and later remembered them. The complex relationship
between history and memory is brought to bear on analyses of
cultural artifacts and productions including novels, films, short
stories, and poems that derive from or evoke war. Even though the
cultural approach concerns itself with the local and the particular
rather than with the abstract and universal, it is inherently
comparative. Moreover, it also relocates each war in the historical
and cultural experiences of Asian countries themselves rather than
seeing the war as merely a conflict between the United States and
Asian nations. This volume is meant to encourage readers,
especially in a teaching environment, to develop an understanding
of the experience of war in Asia that is variegated, fragmented,
and complex, like the wars themselves.
In contrast to the many books that use military, diplomatic, and
historic language in analyzing the Korean War, this book takes a
cultural approach that emphasizes the human dimension of the war,
an approach that especially features Korean voices. There are
chapters on Korean art on the war, translations into English of
Korean poetry by Korean soldiers, and American soldier poetry on
the war. There is a photographic essay on the war by combat
journalist and Pulitzer Prize winning photographer Max Desfor.
Another chapter includes and analyzes songs on the Korean War -
Korean, American, and Chinese - that illuminate the many complex
memories of the war. There is a discussion of Korean films on the
war and a chapter on Korean War POWs and their contested memories.
More than any other nonfiction book on the war, this one shows us
the human face of tragedy for Americans, Chinese, and most
especially Koreans. June 2000 was the fiftieth anniversary of the
outbreak of the Korean War; this moving volume is intended as a
commemoration of it.
This text examines the Pacific War, the Korean War and the Vietnam
War, from the perspective of those who fought the wars and lived
through them. The relationship between history and memory informs
the book, and each war is relocated in the historical and cultural
experiences of Asian countries.
The Hebrew Old Testament, which contains some of the world s most
ancient religious texts, was written and repeatedly re-edited over
the course of several centuries from about 1000 BCE. It reached its
final form at the hands of editors who were monotheists. They
believed that their god Yahweh was the only true God, and that he
had been worshipped exclusively by their ancestors from the time of
Abraham. They edited their sources to reflect this belief. However
we can strip away this veneer of later monotheism to view the
ancient stories themselves. These bear witness to Israelite
religion as practised before 600 BCE. Far from being monotheistic,
this religion was a fascinating polytheistic paganism, close to the
religion of the surrounding Canaanites. In this religion Yahweh,
far from being God as understood by modern western monotheism, was
a distinctive tribal deity. This book will be of particular
interest to the large numbers of western people who come from a
broadly Christian or Jewish background but have left those faiths
behind to explore paganism or New Age spirituality.
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