Americans in China : encounters with the People's Republic / Terry Lautz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lautz, Terry E., author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Americans--China--Biography.

Americans.

China--Foreign relations--United States.

China.

United States--Foreign relations--China.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2022]

Summary:

'Americans in China' tells the dramatic stories of individual women and men who encountered the People's Republic of China as adversaries and emissaries, mediators and advocates, interpreters and reporters, soldiers, scientists, and scholars. More often than not, their initial fascination was followed by disillusion and disenchantment, a syndrome reflecting a deep-set ambivalence about whether to accept Communist China on its own terms or to pursue a long-standing quest to remake the Middle Kingdom in America's own image. At a time of great debate over the future of US-China relations, the characters in this book speak to us about the challenges of finding common ground.

Contents:

Walter Judd : Cold War crusader

Clarence Adams & Morris Wills : searching for utopia

Joan Hinton & Sid Engst : true believers

Chen-ning Yang : science and patriotism

J. Stapleton Roy : art of diplomacy

Jerome & Joan Cohen : charting new frontiers

Elizabeth Perry : legacy of protest

Shirley Young : joint ventures

John Kamm : negotiating human rights

Melinda Liu : reporting the China story.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Lautz, Terry Americans in China

ISBN:

0-19-751284-4

0-19-751286-0

0-19-751285-2

OCLC:

1286071366