China-Japan relations after World War II : empire, industry and war, 1949-1971 / Amy King, Australian National University.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

King, Amy, 1982- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

China--Foreign relations--Japan.

China.

Japan--Foreign relations--China.

Japan.

China--Foreign relations--1949-1976.

Japan--Foreign relations--1945-1989.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 261 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Biography/History:

Amy King is a lecturer in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University, where she researches and teaches Chinese foreign and security policy and the international relations and security of the Asia-Pacific region.

Summary:

A rich empirical account of China's foreign economic policy towards Japan after World War Two, drawing on hundreds of recently declassified Chinese sources. Amy King offers an innovative conceptual framework for the role of ideas in shaping foreign policy, and examines how China's Communist leaders conceived of Japan after the war. The book shows how Japan became China's most important economic partner in 1971, despite the recent history of war and the ongoing Cold War divide between the two countries. It explains that China's Communist leaders saw Japan as a symbol of a modern, industrialised nation, and Japanese goods, technology and expertise as crucial in strengthening China's economy and military. For China and Japan, the years between 1949 and 1971 were not simply a moment disrupted by the Cold War, but rather an important moment of non-Western modernisation stemming from the legacy of Japanese empire, industry and war in China.

Contents:

Introduction

Empire, industry and war in the China-Japan relationship

Trading with the enemy, 1949-1952

Revolution through industrialisation, 1953-1957

When ideas collide, 1958-July 1960

Comparing ourselves with Japan, August 1960-1965

Conclusion: on the eve of diplomatic normalisation, 1966-1971.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 May 2016).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-316-66821-5

1-316-66881-9

1-316-66891-6

1-316-66901-7

1-316-66941-6

1-316-66911-4

1-316-66931-9

1-316-44343-4