Charles A Kraus
Biographic Data
| ID | 4339681 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charles A Kraus |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charles A |
| FAMILY NAME | Kraus |
| SIGNATURE | KRAUS C A |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Washington University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
More than Just a Soft Drink
Journal Article More than Just a Soft Drink: Coca-Cola and China's Early Reform and Opening Get access Charles Kraus Charles Kraus Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 43, Issue 1, January 2019, Pages 107–129, https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dhy060 Published: 09 August 2018
Failure to Change the Status Quo
President Jimmy Carter’s foreign policies toward Korea were targets of wide criticism from his contemporaries in the late 1970s, and they remain contentious among historians today. The root of Carter’s dismal record regarding this East Asian nation was not simply his misplaced focus on troop withdrawals and human rights, but rather the U.S. president’s failure to change measurably or positively the status quo on the Korean Peninsula. Utilizing so…
The Danger is Two-Fold’
This article examines the intersection between the Cold War and decolonisation in anti-Communist Asia in the 1950s. Drawing on the papers of former South Korean President Syngman Rhee housed at Yonsei University, the article explores both the motivations behind as well as the constraints upon South Korea's efforts to cultivate a military alliance in what it called ‘Free Asia’. Articulating some of the concrete political differences between South …
American Orientalism in Korea
People express and exercise power as much through words as through actions. Yet scholars never have examined systematically how officials and others in the United States actually talked and wrote about Korea, both north and south, during the momentous interwar period. This article unearths crude depictions of the Korean people common in American writings from the 1940s and 1950s, arguing that this rhetoric created and reinforced an unequal power …
To Die on the Steppe
Through a narrative retelling of a little known but incredible journey from Xinjiang to New York City made by a group of ethnic Russians in the mid-twentieth century, this article shows how some of the earliest and most poignant manifestations of the Cold War, including nuclear rivalry and espionage, were made evident in Chinese Central Asia. Wrapped up within an intense competition for resources, information, and influence between the United Sta…
The Bonds of Brotherhood
Drawing on recently declassified documents from the archive of the Foreign Ministry of the People's Republic of China (PRC), this article looks at China's relationship with North Korea during and immediately after the Korean War. Although previous scholarship has touched on PRC-North Korean military ties during the war, this article is the first in-depth analysis of issues that are less well understood, notably China's efforts to cope with a huge…
A border region ‘exuded with militant friendship’
China's aid to Vietnam during the First Indochina War was crucial to the Vit Minh's victory over France in 1954. While China's national leaders were deeply involved in the conflict, it was officials in southwest China who bore overall responsibility for supporting the Vit Minh from 1949 until 1954. Officials from Guangxi, Yunnan, Guangdong, and Hainan Island delivered vast amounts of aid to Vietnam and established numerous schools and training pr…
Creating a Soviet “Semi-Colony”? Sino-Soviet Cooperation and its Demise in Xinjiang, 1949-1955
The rise to power of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1949 was inexorably linked to ending China's humiliating legacy of bowing to imperialism. Seeking to liberate (jiefang) the country from its semi-colonial past, the CCP established diplomatic relations only with countries that renounced both imperialism and ties to the Guomindang (GMD), the former ruling Nationalist Party. In order to strengthen its “revolutionary diplomacy,” the CCP orien…
Internationalist Culture in North Korea, 1945-1950
In the period from 1945-1950, North Korean elites were indeed oriented toward the Soviet Union, but they also followed developments in Asia with a sophistication that is too rarely acknowledged in histories. This article uses North Korean foreign affairs publications, political cartoons, and captured government documents from the Korean War to argue that during the “liberation” period prior to June 25, 1950, the North Korean people were attuned t…
The Bonds of Brotherhood
Drawing on recently declassified documents from the archive of the Foreign Ministry of the People's Republic of China (PRC), this article looks at China's relationship with North Korea during and immediately after the Korean War. Although previous scholarship has touched on PRC-North Korean military ties during the war, this article is the first in-depth analysis of issues that are less well understood, notably China's efforts to cope with a huge…
Internationalist Culture in North Korea, 1945-1950
In the period from 1945-1950, North Korean elites were indeed oriented toward the Soviet Union, but they also followed developments in Asia with a sophistication that is too rarely acknowledged in histories. This article uses North Korean foreign affairs publications, political cartoons, and captured government documents from the Korean War to argue that during the “liberation” period prior to June 25, 1950, the North Korean people were attuned t…
Creating a Soviet “Semi-Colony”? Sino-Soviet Cooperation and its Demise in Xinjiang, 1949-1955
The rise to power of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1949 was inexorably linked to ending China's humiliating legacy of bowing to imperialism. Seeking to liberate (jiefang) the country from its semi-colonial past, the CCP established diplomatic relations only with countries that renounced both imperialism and ties to the Guomindang (GMD), the former ruling Nationalist Party. In order to strengthen its “revolutionary diplomacy,” the CCP orien…
The Bonds of Brotherhood
Drawing on recently declassified documents from the archive of the Foreign Ministry of the People's Republic of China (PRC), this article looks at China's relationship with North Korea during and immediately after the Korean War. Although previous scholarship has touched on PRC-North Korean military ties during the war, this article is the first in-depth analysis of issues that are less well understood, notably China's efforts to cope with a huge…
A border region ‘exuded with militant friendship’
China's aid to Vietnam during the First Indochina War was crucial to the Vit Minh's victory over France in 1954. While China's national leaders were deeply involved in the conflict, it was officials in southwest China who bore overall responsibility for supporting the Vit Minh from 1949 until 1954. Officials from Guangxi, Yunnan, Guangdong, and Hainan Island delivered vast amounts of aid to Vietnam and established numerous schools and training pr…
To Die on the Steppe
Through a narrative retelling of a little known but incredible journey from Xinjiang to New York City made by a group of ethnic Russians in the mid-twentieth century, this article shows how some of the earliest and most poignant manifestations of the Cold War, including nuclear rivalry and espionage, were made evident in Chinese Central Asia. Wrapped up within an intense competition for resources, information, and influence between the United Sta…
American Orientalism in Korea
People express and exercise power as much through words as through actions. Yet scholars never have examined systematically how officials and others in the United States actually talked and wrote about Korea, both north and south, during the momentous interwar period. This article unearths crude depictions of the Korean people common in American writings from the 1940s and 1950s, arguing that this rhetoric created and reinforced an unequal power …
The Danger is Two-Fold’
This article examines the intersection between the Cold War and decolonisation in anti-Communist Asia in the 1950s. Drawing on the papers of former South Korean President Syngman Rhee housed at Yonsei University, the article explores both the motivations behind as well as the constraints upon South Korea's efforts to cultivate a military alliance in what it called ‘Free Asia’. Articulating some of the concrete political differences between South …
More than Just a Soft Drink
Journal Article More than Just a Soft Drink: Coca-Cola and China's Early Reform and Opening Get access Charles Kraus Charles Kraus Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 43, Issue 1, January 2019, Pages 107–129, https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dhy060 Published: 09 August 2018
Failure to Change the Status Quo
President Jimmy Carter’s foreign policies toward Korea were targets of wide criticism from his contemporaries in the late 1970s, and they remain contentious among historians today. The root of Carter’s dismal record regarding this East Asian nation was not simply his misplaced focus on troop withdrawals and human rights, but rather the U.S. president’s failure to change measurably or positively the status quo on the Korean Peninsula. Utilizing so…
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