Normalization of U.S.-China relations : an international history / edited by William C. Kirby, Robert S. Ross, and Gong Li.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kirby, William C.

Ross, Robert S., 1954-

Gong, Li, 1952-

Series:

Harvard East Asian monographs ; 254.

Harvard East Asian monographs ; 254

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Foreign relations--China.

United States.

International relations.

China.

China--Foreign relations--United States.

Physical Description:

xix, 376 pages ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Normalization of United States-China relations

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2005.

Summary:

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-a ̀-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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [289]-354) and index.

ISBN:

0674019040

OCLC:

61859783