{"schema_version":"bf_book_companion_v1","release_id":"20260418T162306Z","book":{"amazon_purchase_url":"https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01EXC92TK?tag=bookfrontier-20","asin":"B01EXC92TK","authors":["Josephine Nock-Hee Park","Josphine Nock Park"],"book_id":"9780190257675","canonical_url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/cold-war-friendships-B01EXC92TK","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780190257675.jpg?v=20260418T162306Z%3A2026-04-19T10%3A16%3A55Z","description":"Cold War Friendships explores the plight of the Asian ally of the American wars in Korea and Vietnam. Enlisted into proxy warfare, this figure is not a friend but a \"friendly,\" a wartime convenience enlisted to serve a superpower. It is through this deeply unequal relation, however, that the Cold War friendly secures her own integrity and insists upon her place in the neocolonial imperium. This study reads a set of highly enterprising wartime subjects who make their way to the US via difficult attachments. American forces ventured into newly postcolonial Korea and Vietnam, both plunged into civil wars, to draw the dividing line of the Cold War. The strange success of containment and militarization in Korea unraveled in Vietnam, but the friendly marks the significant continuity between these hot wars. In both cases, the friendly justified the fight: she was also a political necessity who redeployed cold war alliances, and, remarkably, made her way to America. As subjects in process - and indeed, proto-Americans - these figures are prime literary subjects, whose processes of becoming are on full display in Asian American novels and testimonies of these wars. Literary writings on both of these conflicts are presently burgeoning, and Cold War Friendships performs close analyses of key texts whose stylistic constraints and contradictions--shot through with political and historical nuance--present complex gestures of alliance.","forthcoming":false,"isbn13":"9780190257675","publication_date":"20160615","publisher":"Oxford University Press","slug":"cold-war-friendships","subtitle":"Korea, Vietnam, and Asian American Literature","title":"Cold War Friendships"},"discovery":{"categories":{"all":[{"bisac_code":"LIT004030","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Asian American Lit Crit","score":0.7643,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"HIS027020","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Korean War History","score":0.7617,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"HIS027070","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Vietnam War History","score":0.7253,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"hint":[{"bisac_code":"LIT004030","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Asian American Lit Crit","score":0.7643,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"HIS027020","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Korean War History","score":0.7617,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"HIS027070","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Vietnam War History","score":0.7253,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"publisher":[{"bisac_code":"LIT004020","confidence_band":"high","label":"American Lit Crit","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"}]},"genres":[{"label":"Asian American Lit Crit","score":0.7643,"slug":"asian-american-lit-crit"},{"label":"Korean War History","score":0.7617,"slug":"korean-war-history"},{"label":"Vietnam War History","score":0.7253,"slug":"vietnam-war-history"}],"reader_fit":["Good for readers who enjoy Asian American Lit Crit","Good for readers who enjoy Asian American Lit Crit and Korean War History."],"related_lists":[],"series":null,"similar_books":[{"authors":["JaHyun Kim Haboush","William Haboush","Jisoo Kim","& 0 more"],"book_id":"9780231172288","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780231172288.jpg?v=20260418T162306Z%3A2026-04-19T10%3A16%3A55Z","score":10.6684,"title":"The Great East Asian War and the Birth of the Korean Nation","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780231172288"},{"authors":["Michael Pembroke"],"book_id":"9781786076618","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781786076618.jpg?v=20260418T162306Z%3A2026-04-19T10%3A16%3A55Z","score":9.6554,"title":"Korea: Where the American Century Began","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781786076618"},{"authors":["Linda Granfield","Russell Freedman"],"book_id":"9780618177400","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780618177400.jpg?v=20260418T162306Z%3A2026-04-19T10%3A16%3A55Z","score":9.5527,"title":"I Remember Korea","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780618177400"},{"authors":["Robert W. 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