The Key to the South: Britian, the United States, and Thailand during the Approach of the Pacific War, 1929-1942.

This paper studies the activities of American enterprises, technology, and related business organizations and engineering groups in China from the outbreak of World War i to the Pacific War and explains how these activities helped establish connections between China and the world. It borrows the concept of “networks” from Professor Sherman Cochran’s extraordinary book titled Encountering Chinese Networks, but broadens the scope of the term to include activity at the level of management and competition, as well as placing Sino-American relations in transnational perspective. Using a multi-archival approach to examine China’s major attempts at internationalization, this article focuses on the cases of the American Asiatic Association, the American Chamber of Commerce of China, and the Association of Chinese and American Engineers to show how these networks played important roles in the development of Chinese-American relations. It also discusses the issues of standardization, “scientific management,” and professionalism of entrepreneurs and engineers in influencing network making.

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Japan's Road to the Pacific War: Japan Erupts: The London Naval Conference and the Manchurian Incident, 1928-1932 (1984); The China Quagmire: Japan's Expansion on the Asian Continent, 1933-1941 (1983); Deterrent Diplomacy: Japan, Germany, and the USSR, 1935-1940 (1976); The Fateful Choice: Japan's Advance into Southeast Asia, 1939-1941 (1980); The Final Confrontation: Japan's Negotiations with the United States, 1941 (1994)

The SHAFR Guide Online ◽

10.1163/2468-1733_shafr_sim120120087 ◽

2017 ◽

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Southeast Asia ◽

The United States ◽

Pacific War ◽

Asian Continent ◽

The Pacific

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Coda

Arc of Containment ◽

10.7591/cornell/9781501716409.003.0007 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 177-182

Author(s):

Wen-Qing Ngoei

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Southeast Asia ◽

The United States ◽

Southeast Asian ◽

Pacific War ◽

Soviet Power ◽

Domino Effect ◽

The Pacific ◽

At Home

This coda concludes the book by examining how the United States and its Southeast Asian allies responded to the fall of Saigon to communist forces in 1975. It shows that the regimes of the arc of containment did not proceed to topple like dominoes to communist factions at home, or bow to Chinese or Soviet power, but instead elected to reinforce their ties with Washington. Equally, U.S. policymakers discerned this “reverse domino effect” across Asia (or so they termed it) and unreservedly renewed American economic, political and military commitments to their allies in the region. Given that the arc of containment underpinned imperial transition and the rise of U.S. empire in Southeast Asia, the coda contends that reversals of the domino theory, not its fulfilment, were the true prevailing motif of American interference in the region’s fraught decolonization after the Pacific War.

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War and Welfare Policy in Japan

The Journal of Asian Studies ◽

10.2307/2700296 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 61 (2) ◽

pp. 417-435 ◽

Cited By ~ 24

Author(s):

Gregory J. Kasza

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Welfare State ◽

Welfare Policy ◽

Well Being ◽

The United States ◽

Public Welfare ◽

Pacific War ◽

Welfare Provision ◽

The Pacific ◽

The Welfare State

The pacific war (1937–45) marked the most innovative period in the development of public welfare in Japan, comparable to the 1880s in Germany, the 1908–14 era in Britain, and the 1930s in the United States. Wartime welfare policy set precedents that shape many aspects of welfare provision in Japan to this day. It is a cruel paradox, but war, despite its immediate, catastrophic effects on human well-being, has played a major role in the evolution of the welfare state.

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The Eagle has Landed: Groping for a Korean Role in the Pacific War

Journal of American-East Asian Relations ◽

10.1163/18765610-02101001 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 21 (1) ◽

pp. 5-33

Author(s):

Mark E. Caprio

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

World War Ii ◽

The United States ◽

Pacific War ◽

World War ◽

The Pacific ◽

Southern Korea ◽

History Of ◽

Military Support ◽

First Americans

The first Americans to arrive in Korea following Japan’s surrender at the end of World War II brought with them a quartet of Korean soldiers that U.S. officials had recruited for the Eagle Project, the most ambitious American effort to use Koreans in the Pacific War that punctuated a long wartime effort to enlist Allied diplomatic and military support for overseas Koreans. In response, U.S. officials had insisted that Korean exiles in the United States unify their efforts. This condition referenced squabbles among Korean groups in general, with the most transparent being those between Syngman Rhee and Haan Kilsoo. While Korean combatants on the Asian mainland managed to gain some U.S. support for their cause, recognition of their potential came too late in the war for them to help liberate their country. Ultimately, the United States turned to the Japanese and Japanese-trained Koreans to assist in this occupation. Reviewing the history of both Korean lobbying and U.S. response to it provides the opportunity to ask whether better handling of the Korean issue during World War II could have provided U.S. occupation forces with better circumstances to prepare southern Korea for a swift, and unified, independence.

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