Caldwell, born and raised in the southern Chinese province of Fujian, was himself the son of missionaries, and had fought in China against the Japanese (tales told in American Agent and the superb China Coast Family). The Korea Story was written as the truce talks were bringing the Korean War to an end, and it sizzles with an impassioned intensity directed at what Caldwell saw as American blunders. He describes the resources and opportunities squandered, and the mistakes made and not corrected during the late 1940s as the U.S. government applied an ill-informed, top-down approach to fostering the new democracy. His arguments for a more localised, sympathetic approach to nation-building are convincing, and remain as relevant today.
Caldwell, born and raised in the southern Chinese province of Fujian, was himself the son of missionaries, and had fought in China against the Japanese (tales told in American Agent and the superb China Coast Family). The Korea Story was written as the truce talks were bringing the Korean War to an end, and it sizzles with an impassioned intensity directed at what Caldwell saw as American blunders. He describes the resources and opportunities squandered, and the mistakes made and not corrected during the late 1940s as the U.S. government applied an ill-informed, top-down approach to fostering the new democracy. His arguments for a more localised, sympathetic approach to nation-building are convincing, and remain as relevant today.
- ISBN:
- 9781788692311
- 9781788692311
- Category:
- Political structures: democracy
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
- 01-12-2020
- Publisher:
- Camphor Press Ltd
- Pages:
- 220
- Dimensions (mm):
- 203x127x12mm
- Weight:
- 0.22kg
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