Hegemonic Cooperation and Conflict: Postwar Japan's China Policy and the United States

(Hardback)

Publishing Details

Classifications

Physical Properties

Description

Postwar Japan has consistently maintained close cooperation with the United States over the last four decades over such major issues as Japan's recognition of China, their peace treaties, and, more recently, Japan's resumption of the yen loan to China suspended in the wake of the Tiananmen incident. This has been in spite of Japan's well-known conflict of interests in China with the United States. Japan's cooperation with the United States sheds new light on some important questions which are central to current debates about the shape of the new world order in general, and America's world role in particular, in the post-Cold War era. What has been the role of American power in maintaining Japan's cooperation What have been the bases of American hegemony in the post-war world How has American hegemony changed over the years Qingxin K. Wang addresses and illuminates these important questions through a detailed and provocative study of Japan's relations with the United States over China policy in the last four decades.

Reviews

"I know of no book in English that has provided a similar overview of Sino-Japanese relations in the postwar era. Nor am I aware of a book that has dealt so forthrightly and consistently with the issue of American hegemony in connection with Japan's China policy."-Gilbert Rozman, Princeton University
"Substantively, this is important work. Wang is at the cutting edge of scholarship in International Relations in that he is wedding international relations theory to careful empirical research done in original-language primary source materials...his analysis of that relationship over a 40-year period...provides important new insights about the US-Japan relationship."-Peter Van Ness, Australian National University
[a] useful reference for students of contemporary international relations to appraise the intricacies of the US-Japan-China quandary.-H-Net Reviews in the Humanities & Social Sciences
"a useful reference for students of contemporary international relations to appraise the intricacies of the US-Japan-China quandary."-H-Net Reviews in the Humanities & Social Sciences
"[a] useful reference for students of contemporary international relations to appraise the intricacies of the US-Japan-China quandary."-H-Net Reviews in the Humanities & Social Sciences

Author Bio

QINGXIN KEN WANG is Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Hong Kong./e He was postdoctoral fellow at the Center of International Studies, Princeton University, during 1993-1994.