ABOUT THE AUTHOR

David Cheng Chang

David Cheng Chang is an associate professor of history at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and a visiting professor of history at Ewha Womans University, South Korea. He is the author of "The Hijacked War: The Story of Chinese POWs in the Korean War," published by Stanford University Press in 2020. The author thanks John Delury for suggesting the concept of co-conspirators of amnesia.

How a dispute over POWs has distorted memories of the Korean War

US, China and Koreas have conspired to forget conflict, after it morphed from fight over land into one over prisoners

David Cheng ChangJune 15, 2023

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How a dispute over POWs has distorted memories of the Korean War

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