Thread by @DavidChangCheng

"The Hijacked War: The Story of Chinese POWs in the Korean War" #HijackedWar was published by @stanfordpress in Jan 2020. It has been reviewed 14x. My thanks to the reviewers and review editors in this thread. sup.org/books/title/?i…
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James I. Matray reviews #HijackedWar in the JOURNAL OF COLD WAR STUDIES: "numerous interviews with POWs… Using interviews and Nationalist documents, he exposes the still classified 8240th Army Unit… land, air, or sea deployment behind enemy lines."
muse.jhu.edu/article/762906
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Gretchen Heefner reviews #HijackedWar in @jas_tw (Editors @emilybaumUCI @philip_thai): "Chang aims to…methodically unpack and reassess seemingly small details and events during the Korean War to make big claims about responsibility and outcomes."
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https://twitter.com/DavidChangCheng/status/1394697130879569922

William Stueck reviews #HijackedWar @CWIHP along with 4 books by Monica Kim, @HajimuMasuda, Wada Haruki, Samuel F. Wells Jr.

"His balanced treatment of the two sides in the Chinese civil war is unusual and commendable"

FullText wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/kore…
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Xiaobing Li reviews in MICHIGAN WAR STUDIES REVIEW: "For the first time, we have an English-language account of the war from inside the POW camps." But he disagrees with the #HijackedWar thesis.

Fulltext miwsr.com/2021-064.aspx
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Andrew Nathan reviews #HijackedWar in @ForeignAffairs
foreignaffairs.com/reviews/capsul… "exceptionally vivid prisoner’s-eye account, based on camp archives and interviews with ex-POWS, leads him to condemn the key U.S. policymakers…for their “arrogance, ignorance, and negligence.”
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In @GlobalAsiaEAF, @JohnDelury reviews #HijackedWar: "…trapped the US in an unwanted war by loudly insisting on “voluntary repatriation” while covertly implementing a “psychological warfare” program to convince the 20,000 Chinese PoWs to go to Taiwan. globalasia.org/v15no3/book/sh…
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@GlobalAsiaEAF @JohnDelury #HijackedWar is often reviewed as a pair with Monica Kim's INTERROGATION ROOMS OF THE KOREAN WAR. @JohnDiMoia's “Captive Minds, Imprisoned Bodies: Prisoners of War, Detention, and ‘Voluntary Repatriation’” in the final issue of CROSS CURRENT.
cross-currents.berkeley.edu/e-journal/issu…
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@sandrahpark in @JournalKorea: 2 books provide "a more profound understanding of the intimate and global forces that converged on the grounds of KoreanWar POW camps. No longer will the war behind barbed wire remain peripheral to the study of #KoreanWar"
muse.jhu.edu/article/787283 9/

@sondaekwon reviews #HijackedWar in @PacificAffairs:
"US prisoner re-indoctrination program in chapter 6 is particularly noteworthy. …the US covertly carried out a rigorous brainwashing program…and whose instructors were pro-Nationalist POWs (128)"
pacificaffairs.ubc.ca/book-reviews/t…

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In JOURNAL OF CHINESE MILITARY HISTORY, Esther T. Hu writes: "Chang takes the reader on a journey covering the stories of these Chinese soldiers… a gripping read." doi-org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/10.1163/221274…

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