Warren I. Cohen is Distinguished University Professor, Emeritus, at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
This is a gem. Warren Cohen has long been the leading historian of
the relationship between the United States and East Asia. When such
a scholar writes a spirited, delightful, and personalized account
of American-Asian relations, it commands special attention. He
shows convincingly how the histories of East Asia and the United
States have become intertwined since the nineteenth century. The
book argues, in essence, that the modern history of the world can
never be fully understood unless we recognize this fact.
*Akira Iriye, Harvard University*
Perceptive and witty, these provocative reflections consider what
some Americans celebrate and some Americans fear and condemn, but
what most Americans refuse to acknowledge: the "Asianization" of
America. The cultures of the world are dramatically and quickly
changing and Cohen offers a historian's long view of an East-West
encounter that transcends immigration exclusion, atomic bombs, and
economic boycotts: the changes in the everyday lives of everyday
East Asians and Americans produced by their cultural contact.
*Gordon H. Chang, Stanford University*
Warren Cohen is a master historian of US-East Asia relations. In
these lectures he examines a new topic, the history of cultural
relations between the United States and Asia. He traces how
Americanization has swept Asia but he reveals that the United
States has been more Asianized than one might guess from our
"Western heritage."
*Ezra F. Vogel, Harvard University*
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