China: Mark A. Ryan. Chinese Attitudes Toward Nuclear Weapons: China and the United States During the Korean War.

This chapter shows how the PRC’s search for greater status brought with it new obligations. China’s desire to stand at the helm of an Eastern revolution compelled the CCP to offer assistance to other Asian revolutionaries. The chapter argues that this mindset was a key factor in Beijing’s decisions to enter the Korean War and provide training and assistance to the Viet Minh. The United States, on the other hand, sought to prevent the PRC from gaining stature through its role in these conflicts. It often cited deflating China’s prestige in Asia as a motive for both fighting on in Korea and aiding the French in Indochina.

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In search of a new mission in Korea

The NGO Care and Food Aid from America 1945-80 ◽

10.7228/manchester/9781526117212.003.0004 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Heike Wieters

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

United Nations ◽

Korean War ◽

The United States ◽

United States Government ◽

Government Agencies ◽

Refugee Crisis ◽

Media Attention ◽

The Korean War

Chapter 3 is a case study on CARE’s work in Korea during and after the Korean War. It traces CARE’s response to a presidential aid appeal in the United States, shows how American NGOs competed for donor dollars and media attention. In addition, it depicts the difficulties private humanitarian players encountered in a foreign setting involving a refugee crisis and a tight web of players with different stakes, meaning military players, Korean and United States government agencies, United Nations organizations as well as diverse foreign aid agencies.

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Mythologizing Memories: A Critique of the Utah Korean War Memorial

The Public Historian ◽

10.1525/tph.2012.34.1.61 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 34 (1) ◽

pp. 61-82 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Suhi Choi

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Korean War ◽

Salt Lake ◽

Salt Lake City ◽

The United States ◽

Fiftieth Anniversary ◽

Collective Memories ◽

The Korean War ◽

Lake City

Abstract Since its fiftieth anniversary, memorialization of the Korean War has taken place in towns and cities across the United States. As a case study of this belated memory boom, this essay looks at the Utah Korean War Memorial, erected by local veterans in 2003 at Memory Grove Park, Salt Lake City. Situated in both the local and national contexts of remembrance, the memorial resonates largely with three mythical scripts, with themes of resilience, local pride, and the good war, all of which have allowed veterans to negotiate tensions between individual and collective memories. This case study reveals in particular how the official commemoration of the war has shifted local veterans' rhetorical positions from potential witnesses of subversive realities of the war to uncritical negotiators whose legitimization of the very process of mythologizing memories has ultimately alienated them from their own experiences during and after the war.

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