International competition in China, 1899-1991 : the rise, fall, and restoration of the Open Door policy / Bruce A. Elleman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Elleman, Bruce A., 1959- author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia (2005) ; 106.

Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia ; 106

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Eastern question (Far East).

China--Foreign relations.

China.

International relations.

China--Foreign economic relations.

International economic relations.

China--Commerce--History.

Commerce.

History.

China--Politics and government--20th century.

Politics and government.

Diplomatic relations.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 203 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2015.

Summary:

China's recent economic reforms have opened its economy to the world. This policy, however, is not new: in the late nineteenth century, the United States put forward the Open Door Policy as a counter to European exclusive "spheres of influence" in China. This book, based on extensive original archival research, examines and re-evaluates China's Open Door Policy. It considers the policy from its inception in 1899 right through to the post-1978 reforms. It relates these changes to the various shifts in China's international relations, discusses how decades of foreign invasion, civil war and revolution followed the destruction of the policy in the 1920s, and considers how the policy, when applied in Taiwan after 1949, and by Deng Xiaoping in mainland China after 1978, was instrumental in bringing about, respectively, Taiwan's "economic miracle" and mainland China's recent economic boom. The book argues that, although the policy was characterised as United States 'economic imperialism' during the Cold War, in reality it helped China retain its sovereignty and territorial integrity. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 The origins of the Open Door Policy in China 5

2 Secret diplomacy undermines the Open Door 21

3 The growth of nationalism in post-1911 China 34

4 The debacle at Paris 46

5 The 1917 October Revolution's impact on the Open Door Policy 59

6 The Washington Conference, 1921-1922 73

7 Soviet attempts to open diplomatic relations with China and Japan 87

8 Soviet-Japanese secret diplomacy undermines the Open Door Policy 101

9 The Soviet-Japanese struggle to partition China 114

10 The Open Door Policy and China's post-war territorial integrity 135

11 The Open Door Policy and the Chinese Civil War, 1945-1949 147

12 The Open Door Policy in the era of the two Chinas 159.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

0415563933

9780415563932

OCLC:

904192249

Publisher Number:

99963119305