Walter Jung is Associate Professor of History and Geography and the Director of the Western Pacific Institute at the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond, Oklahoma. Xiao-bing Li is Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies and the Associate Director of the Western Pacific Institute at the University of Central Oklahoma.
Chapter 1 Acknowledgments Chapter 2 A note on Transliteration Chapter 3 About the Contributors Chapter 4 Introduction Chapter 5 Part One: Asia's Financial Crisis Chapter 6 China: An Active Factor in Asia's Financial Crisis Chapter 7 Export Performance and Trade Conflict Resolution: Korea's Experience Chapter 8 An analysis of Asia's Financial Crisis Chapter 9 The Touchstone: Southeast Asian Financial Crisis Chapter 10 Part Two: New Geopolitical Challenges Chapter 11 New Direction in U.S.-China Trade Partnership Chapter 12 North Korea's Last Secret War: An Inside Story of Pyongyang's Strategic Thinking and New Foreign Policy-Making Chapter 13 Taiwan's Independence Movement Chapter 14 Taiwan's New Party and the Reunification of China Chapter 15 Of Dragons and Tigers: The Pacific Century in Light of the Current Financial Crisis in Asia Chapter 16 Part Three: Cultural and Social Changes Chapter 17 Language, Identity, and the Asian Crisis: Is English Causing an Identity Crisis in Asia? Chapter 18 China's Reform and the New "Silk Road" Chapter 19 The Cinema, Racism, and America's Asian Wars Chapter 20 Vietnam and American Military Experience in Southeast Asia Chapter 21 Index