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Author Chang, David Cheng, 1974- author.

Title The hijacked war : the story of Chinese POWs in the Korean War / David Cheng Chang.

Publication Info. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (476 pages)
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Fleeing or embracing the Communists in the Chinese Civil War -- Reforming former nationalists -- Desperados and volunteers -- Chiang, Macarthur, Truman, and NSC-81/1 -- Defectors and prisoners in the first three Chinese offensives -- Ridgway's turnaround, MacArthur's exit, and Taiwan's entry -- The fifth offensive debacle -- Civil war in the POW camps -- The debate over prisoner repatriation in Washington, Panmunjom, and Taipei -- Screening : "voluntary repatriation" turns violent -- Gen. Dodd's kidnapping and Gen. Boatner's crackdown -- China hands on Koje and Cheju -- The October 1 massacre on Cheju -- Exchanges and "explanation" -- Prisoner-agents of unit 8240 -- Aftermath.
Summary 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
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Language In English.
Subject Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Prisoners and prisons, Chinese.
Korean War (1950-1953)
Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Personal narratives, Chinese.
Genre/Form Personal narratives -- Chinese.
Subject Repatriation -- China -- History -- 20th century.
Repatriation.
China.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Repatriation -- Taiwan -- History -- 20th century.
Taiwan.
Communists -- China -- History -- 20th century.
Communists.
Nationalists -- China -- History -- 20th century.
Nationalists.
United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1953.
United States.
International relations.
Chronological Term 1945-1953
Subject China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949.
Chinese Civil War (China : 1945-1949)
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Personal narratives.
Personal narratives.
Other Form: Print version: Chang, David Cheng, 1974- Hijacked war. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2019 9781503604605 (DLC) 2018021585
ISBN 9781503605879 electronic book
1503605876 electronic book
9781503604605 hardcover alkaline paper
1503604608
9781503604605
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