The Hijacked War: The Story of Chinese POWs in the Korean War

The Korean War lasted for three years, one month, and two days, but armistice talks occupied more...
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Author: David Cheng Chang
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The Hijacked War: The Story of Chinese POWs in the Korean War by Chang, David Cheng

The Hijacked War: The Story of Chinese POWs in the Korean War

CHF 62.49

The Hijacked War: The Story of Chinese POWs in the Korean War

CHF 62.49
Author: David Cheng Chang
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

The Korean War lasted for three years, one month, and two days, but armistice talks occupied more than two of those years, as more than 14,000 Chinese prisoners of war refused to return to Communist China and demanded to go to Nationalist Taiwan, effectively hijacking the negotiations and thwarting the designs of world leaders at a pivotal moment in Cold War history. In The Hijacked War, David Cheng Chang vividly portrays the experiences of Chinese prisoners in the dark, cold, and damp tents of Koje and Cheju Islands in Korea and how their decisions derailed the high politics being conducted in the corridors of power in Washington, Moscow, and Beijing.

Chang demonstrates how the Truman-Acheson administration's policies of voluntary repatriation and prisoner reindoctrination for psychological warfare purposes--the first overt and the second covert--had unintended consequences. The success of the reindoctrination program backfired when anti-Communist Chinese prisoners persuaded and coerced fellow POWs to renounce their homeland. Drawing on newly declassified archival materials from China, Taiwan, and the United States, and interviews with more than 80 surviving Chinese and North Korean prisoners of war, Chang depicts the struggle over prisoner repatriation that dominated the second half of the Korean War, from early 1952 to July 1953, in the prisoners' own words.



Author: David Cheng Chang
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 01/07/2020
Pages: 496
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.05lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.40w x 1.70d
ISBN: 9781503604605

About the Author
David Cheng Chang is Assistant Professor of History at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

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