Asia First

After Japanese bombs hit Pearl Harbor, the American right stood at a crossroads. Generally isolationist, conservatives needed to forge their own foreign policy agenda if they wanted to remain politically viable. When Mao Zedong established the People's Republic of China in 1949, with the Cold War just underway, they had a new object of foreign policy, and as Joyce Mao reveals in this look at 20th century Pacific affairs, that change would provide vital ingredients for American conservatism as we know it today. Mao explores the deep resonance American conservatives felt with the defeat of Chiang Kai-Shek and his exile to Taiwan, which they lamented as the loss of China to communism and the corrosion of traditional values.

שנה

2015

שפה

English

הוצאה

The University of Chicago Press

מהדורות

2

עמודים

226

ISBN

9780226252711

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata