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Editorial Seventy years ago this past November in Egypt, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese leader Jiang Jieshi met to discuss military strategy to defeat Japan and plans for the reconstruction of postwar East Asia. On 1 December, they issued the Cairo Declaration, the only substantive result of this summit meeting. The proclamation sought to secure China’s status as one of the four great powers that after winning World War II would act in concert to preserve peace and stability in the postwar world. Surprisingly, a full-length study of the Cairo Conference, the only wartime meeting devoted exclusively to the Pacific war, did not appear until 2011 with publication of Roland Ian Heiferman’s The Cairo Conference of 1943: Roosevelt, Churchill, Chiang Kai-shek and Madame Chiang . Michael Schaller provides further evidence that the Cairo Declaration has been an historical postscript when he makes no mention of it in his seminal work The U.S. Crusade in China, 1938–1945 . But the proclamation is worth remembering because it sketched the future of a defeated Japan. The three articles in this issue offer new insights on the anticipated, real, and imagined impact of U.S. efforts to http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of American-East Asian Relations Brill

Editorial

Matray, James I.
Journal of American-East Asian Relations , Volume 21 (2): 5 – Jun 14, 2014
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Copyright © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Editorial
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1058-3947
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10.1163/18765610-02102001
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Seventy years ago this past November in Egypt, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese leader Jiang Jieshi met to discuss military strategy to defeat Japan and plans for the reconstruction of postwar East Asia. On 1 December, they issued the Cairo Declaration, the only substantive result of this summit meeting. The proclamation sought to secure China’s status as one of the four great powers that after winning World War II would act in concert to preserve peace and stability in the postwar world. Surprisingly, a full-length study of the Cairo Conference, the only wartime meeting devoted exclusively to the Pacific war, did not appear until 2011 with publication of Roland Ian Heiferman’s The Cairo Conference of 1943: Roosevelt, Churchill, Chiang Kai-shek and Madame Chiang . Michael Schaller provides further evidence that the Cairo Declaration has been an historical postscript when he makes no mention of it in his seminal work The U.S. Crusade in China, 1938–1945 . But the proclamation is worth remembering because it sketched the future of a defeated Japan. The three articles in this issue offer new insights on the anticipated, real, and imagined impact of U.S. efforts to

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Published: Jun 14, 2014

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