Volume 6 : Modern East Asia (1900CE to the present)

Edited by Xudong Zhang and Shigeto Sonoda

The twentieth century in East Asia was an age of nation-building Imperial expansion punctuated by war. The Chinese Civil War, the Sino-Japanese War, and the Korean War functioned as a mobilizer of resources by nation states and facilitated a large scale of human mobility across national boundaries. Across East Asia, Cold-war regimes regulated cultural flows, while the end of the Cold War opened a new phase of cultural exchanges within East Asia and beyond.