America's Response to China A History of Sino-American Relations

Name: America's Response to China A History of Sino-American Relations
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ISBN: 9780231119290

ISBN-10: 0231119291

ISBN-13: 9780231119290

Edition: 4th 2000

Authors: Warren I. Cohen

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Given the many important developments in Sino-American relations in the past decade, there is a desperate need for a succinct, historically grounded assessment of the increasingly contentious and complicated relationship between these two giants of the world stage. This classic text by one of America's leading diplomatic historians analyzes the concerns and conceptions that have shaped U.S.--China policy -- as well as of their important consequences. In its first three editions, America's Response to China set the standard for introductions to this important topic. This 4th Edition is the most up-to-date work on the subject. Starting with a discussion of the mercantile interests of the…

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List price: $28.00
Edition: 4th
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 2/3/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 284
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Warren I. Cohen is Distinguished University Professor of History at University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) and Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. His publications include The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations: America in the Age of Soviet Power, 1945-1991, East Asian Art in American Culture(Columbia), and America's Response to China: A History of Sino-American Relations(Columbia).



Preface to the Fourth Edition


Preface to the Third Edition


Preface to the Second Edition


Preface to the First Edition


Acknowledgments


Prologue: The Barbarians and the Tribute System



The Development of the Treaty System



The United States as a Power in East Asia



In the Light of the Rising Sun



The Response to Chinese Nationalism



China as an Abstraction--The Conflict with Japan



Communism in China



The Great Aberration



Rapprochement--At Last



In the Shadow of Tiananmen


Notes


Bibliographical Essay


Index