West Across the Pacific: American Involvement in East Asia from 1898 to the Vietnam War
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Americans should have seen that discriminatory practices against Asians were going to sow the seeds of hatred and discord with people of that vast continent; the Japanese should have seen that Japan could hardly expect her citizens to be treated well abroad while they were herded like cattle at home; both should have seen that European colonialism was a poison to be eliminated rather than to be used to condone further malpractices; and Hawaiians, Chinese and other Asians should have gone on a sit-down strike until some honest facing of these issues came forth” (pp. 61–63).
10. Alexander Riasanovsky and Hilary Conroy, “Cosmic History Seminar,” http://staff.bcc.edu/philosophy/cosmic/htm
11. Arlif Dirlik, “Performing the World: Reality and Representation in the Making of World Histor(ies),” Journal of World History, vol. 16, no. 4 (Dec. 2005), pp. 391–410.
12. Roy Kim and Hilary Conroy, New Tides in the Pacific (Westport, CN: Greenwood Press, 1987).
13. See “Japan’s War in China: An Ideological Somersault,” The Pacific Historical Review, vol. xxi, no. 4 (Nov. 1952), pp. 367–379; and “Japan’s War in China: Historical Parallel to Vietnam?” Pacific Affairs, xliii, 1970, pp. 61–72.
14. Mark Selden, The Yenan Way in Revolutionary China (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1971). Selden’s insight into the “new democratic” aspects of the Marx-Mao tradition in China continues to be reflected in his later work; see, for example, Elizabeth Perry and Mark Selden, editors, Chinese Society: Change, Conflict and Resistance (New York: Routledge, 2000/2003).
15. Fran Conroy, Becoming Revolutionary Persons, unpublished doctoral dissertation, Union Graduate School (now Union Institute and University), Cincinnati, Ohio, 1975, p. 355.