China Confidential American Diplomats and Sino-American Relations, 1945-1996

Name: China Confidential American Diplomats and Sino-American Relations, 1945-1996
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ISBN: 9780231106306

ISBN-10: 0231106300

ISBN-13: 9780231106306

Edition: 2001

Authors: Nancy Bernkopf Tucker, Nancy B. Tucker

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In the past sixty years, relations between China and the United States have fluctuated wildly. Such divisive issues as human rights, the future of Tibet and Taiwan, trade imbalances, and illegal immigration have fueled intense debate over how the United States should deal with the most populous nation in the world. Nancy Bernkopf Tucker brings together a wide range of interviews on these and other issues, recorded by the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training, with key players in the making and execution of U.S. policy towards China since World War II. Historical events usch as Nixon's trip to China, the Tiananmen Massacre, and the recurring Taiwan Straits crises come to life as…

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List price: $95.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 1/3/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 638
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 2.046
Language: English

Nancy Bernkopf Tucker is professor of history at Georgetown University and the Georgetown School of Foreign Service. She is one of the nation's leading authorities on Sino-American relations and the author of Patterns in the Dustand Uncertain Friendships: Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the United States,winner of the Bernath Prize of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.



Acknowledgments


Cast of Characters


Abbreviations


Introduction



War Ends, War Begins


Immediate Postwar Period


Marshall Mission


Civil War


China Lobby


Ward Incident


Chinese Communist Victory--Beijing and Nanjing


Chinese Communist Victory--Shanghai


Bombing by Nationalists


China White Paper


Attack on the Foreign Service


Sino-Soviet Relations


Departure


Developments in Taiwan


On the Eve of the Korean War



1950s


Korea


U.S.-China Policy I


Negotiation with the PRC


Hong Kong


Developments in Taiwan I


Offshore Islands


Developments in Taiwan II


Taiwan Riot


Sino-Soviet Split


U.S.-China Policy II


Tibet



1960s


U.S. Policy


Negotiation with the PRC I


Sino-Soviet Split


Taiwan I


1962 Taiwan Strait Crisis


Sino-Indian Border War


United Nations


Hong Kong I


Vietnam War I


Kennedy Assassination


Hilsman Speech 1963


Hong Kong II


Negotiation With the PRC II


Vietnam War II


Taiwan II


Chinese Activities in Indonesia and the Third World


Cultural Revolution



Normalization


Preliminary Indicators


Nixon, Kissinger, and Normalization


Taiwan


Negotiation with the PRC


United Nations


Nixon Trip to China



1970s


Liaison Offices


Stalemate


Taiwan


Carter


Deng Xiaoping Visit


Taiwan Relations Act


Relations with the PRC


Vietnam


Hong Kong



1980s


Election Campaign


Taiwan Arms Sales Issue


China in the 1980s


Reagan Visit to China


Hong Kong


China in the Later 1980s


Human Rights and Political Reform


Tibet


Exchanges Between China and the U.S.


Taiwan


Korea


Soviet Union



Crisis Years--Tiananmen and The 1990s


Tiananmen


U.S.-China Relations in the 1990s


Lee Teng-hui and the Visa Issue


Taiwan Strait Crisis


Japan


Tibet


Concluding Thoughts


Notes


Index