Re-examining the Cold War: U.S.-China Diplomacy, 1954-1973 / Robert S. Ross, Changbin Jiang.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jiang, Changbin, editor.

Ross, Robert S., 1954- editor.

Series:

Harvard East Asian monographs ; 203.

Harvard University Asia Center E-Book Collection ISBN: 9789004407077.

Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 203

Harvard University Asia Center E-Book Collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cold War.

International relations.

Diplomatic relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2001.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The twelve essays in this volume underscore the similarities between Chinese and American approaches to bilateral diplomacy and between their perceptions of each other's policy-making motivations. Much of the literature on U.S. - China relations posits that each side was motivated either by ideologically informed interests or by ideological assumptions about its counterpart. But as these contributors emphasize, newly accessible archives suggest rather that both Beijing and Washington developed a responsive and tactically adaptable foreign policy. Each then adjusted this policy in response to changing international circumstances and changing assessments of its counterpart's policies. Motivated less by ideology than by pragmatic national security concerns, each assumed that the other faced similar considerations.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Robert S. Ross and Jiang Changbin

Introduction / Robert S. Ross

The Two Chinas in the Global Setting Sino-Soviet and Sino-American Cooperation in the 1950s / William C. Kirby

The Changing International Scene and Chinese Policy toward the United States, 1954-1970 / Zhang Baijia

Over the Volcano The United States and the Taiwan Strait Crisis, 1954-1955 / Ronald W. Pruessen

"A Thorn in the Side of Peace" The Eisenhower Administration and the 1958 Offshore Islands Crisis / Robert Accinelli

Tension across the Taiwan Strait in the 1950s Chinese Strategy and Tactics / Gong Li

Steering Wheel, Shock Absorber, and Diplomatic Probe in Confrontation Sino-American Ambassadorial Talks Seen from the Chinese Perspective / Zhang Baijia and Jia Qingguo

Dialogue of the Deaf? / Steven M. Goldstein

The Johnson Administration, China, and the Vietnam War / Robert D. Schulzinger

Redefinitions: The Domestic Context of America's China Policy in the 1960s / Rosemary Foot

Changes in China's Domestic Situation in the 1960s and Sino-U.S. Relations / Li Jie

Chinese Decision Making and the Thawing of U.S.-China Relations / Gong Li

Détente and the Strategic Triangle Or, "Drinking your Mao Tai and Having Your Vodka, Too" / Michael Schaller

Notes / Robert S. Ross and Jiang Changbin

Index / Robert S. Ross and Jiang Changbin

Harvard East Asian Monographs / Robert S. Ross and Jiang Changbinches.

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Other Format:

Print version: Re-examining the Cold War: U.S.-China Diplomacy, 1954-1973,

ISBN:

9781684173594

9780674005266

OCLC:

604451048

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9781684173594 DOI

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