Normalization of U.S.-China relations : an international history
Relations between China and the United States have been of central importance to both countries over the past half-century, as well as to all states affected by that relationship--Taiwan and the Soviet Union foremost among them. Only recently, however, has the opening of archives made it possible to research this history dispassionately. The eight chapters in this volume offer the first multinational, multi-archival review of the history of Chinese-American conflict and cooperation in the 1970s. On the Chinese side, normalization of relations was instrumental to Beijing's effort to enhance its security vis-à -vis the Soviet Union and was seen as a tactical necessity to promote Chinese military and economic interests. The United States was equally motivated by national security concerns. In the wake of Vietnam, policymakers saw normalization as a means of forestalling Soviet power. As the essays in this volume show, normalization was far from a foregone conclusion
Print Book, English, ©2005
Harvard University Asia Center Distributed by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., ©2005
Aufsatzsammlung
xix, 376 pages ; 24 cm.
9780674019041, 0674019040
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In pursuit of a modus vivendi : the Taiwan issue and Sino-American rapprochement, 1969-1972 / Robert Accinelli
China's domestic politics and the normalization of Sino-U.S. relations, 1969-1979 / Li Jie
Prizes won, opportunities lost : the U.S. normalization of relations with China, 1972-1979 / Rosemary Foot
the difficult path to diplomatic relations : China's U.S. policy, 1972-1978 / Gong Li
The Soviet factor in Sino-American normalization, 1969-1979 / Wang Zhongchun
Vietnam and Chinese policy toward the United States / Li Danhui
Taiwan's policy toward the United States, 1969-1978 / Jaw-ling Joanne Chang
Soviet policy toward the United States and China, 1969-1979 / Vitaly Kozyrev