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Introduction: Understanding Modern East Asia Part One War and Revolution 1. Imperial Powers and pre-WWII Japan 2. The Asian-Pacific War (1937-1945) 3. Cold War Japan: Occupation and Reform (1945-1951) 4. The Nationalists vs. the Communists in China 5. The People’s Republic and Taiwan (1949-1957) Part Two The East vs. the West 6. The Korean War (1950-1953) 7. China and the First Indochina War 8. New Japan (1952-1996) 9. The Communist Cold War and Vietnam (1958-1975) Part Three From Bi-polar, Triangle, to Global 10. The Cultural Revolution and Sino-US Rapprochement 11. China’s Reforming Movement 12. Two Koreas and the Sino-Vietnamese Border War 13. Surviving the Cold War: China’s Globalization Conclusion: East Asia in the Twenty-first Century