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Title Engaging China : fifty years of Sino-American relations / edited by Anne F. Thurston.

Publication Info. New York : Columbia University Press, [2021]

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Series Nancy Bernkopf Tucker and Warren I. Cohen books on American-East Asian relations
Nancy Bernkopf Tucker and Warren I. Cohen books on American-East Asian relations.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "The importance of the relationship between the United States and the People's Republic of China has only grown since Richard Nixon's epochal visit in 1972. By the early twenty-first century, when the rise of China had become an inescapable fact, most American policy makers and experts saw bilateral ties with China as the most consequential foreign-relations priority for the United States. In recent years, even before the coronavirus pandemic, the U.S.-China relationship has rapidly deteriorated-and the whole world has felt the consequences. This book brings together leading China specialists to offer a retrospective on relations between the United States and China over the last half-century and consider what might be next. The contributors-including academics, leaders of China-related nongovernmental organizations, and former diplomats and government officials-analyze the relationship from a range of perspectives: political, diplomatic, economic, social, cultural, commercial, educational, medical, and military. They reassess American engagement with China from the late Mao years onward, covering leaders from Deng Xiaoping through Xi Jinping. The contributors highlight not only the accomplishments and hard-won successes of engagement but also the mistakes and misunderstandings, acknowledging the well-earned distrust and genuine frictions that plague the relationship today. Multidisciplinary and comprehensive, Engaging China is a vital reconsideration for a time when the stakes of U.S. policy toward China have never been higher"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents Part I: The Making and Unmaking of the U.S.-China Relationship -- 1. Engaging China: Fifty Years of Sino-American Relations / Anne F. Thurston -- 2. The Logic and Efficacy of Engagement: Objectives, Assumptions, and Impacts / Thomas Fingar -- 3. Mismanaging China's Rise: The South China Sea Dispute and the Transformation of Sino-American Relations from Strategic Partners to Strategic Rivals / John W. Garver -- Part II: Thinking About How We Think About China -- 4. A Half-Century of Engagement: The Study of China and the Role of the China Scholar Community / Andrew Mertha -- 5. The American Dream and the China Dream: Unpeaceful Evolutions / Richard Madsen -- 6. U.S.-China Retrospective: Forty Years of Commercial Relations / Craig Allen -- 7. A Perspective on Chinese Economics: What Have We Learned? What Did We Fail to Anticipate? / Barry Naughton -- Part III: On the Ground, Nongovernmental, People-to-People Cooperation -- 8. Strategic Adaptation: American Foundations, Religious Organizations, and NGOs in China / Mary Brown Bullock -- 9. U.S.-China Relations: A Public Health Perspective / Yanzhong Huang -- 10. Thinkers. Builders. Symbols. Spies? China-U.S. Educational Relations in the Engagement Era / Robert Daly -- Part IV: Fault Lines, Threats to Peace, and Reflections on the Future -- 11. U.S.-China Military Relations: From Enmity to Entente and Maybe Back Again / Chas W. Freeman Jr. -- 12. China's Periphery: A Rift Zone in U.S.-China Relations / Carla P. Freeman -- 13. Forty-Plus Years of U.S.-China Diplomacy: Realities and Recommendations / Kenneth Lieberthal and Susan Thornton -- 14. Engagement with China: A Eulogy and Reflections on a Gathering Storm / David M. Lampton
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject United States -- Foreign relations -- China.
United States.
International relations.
China.
China -- Foreign relations -- United States.
China -- Foreign relations -- 1976-
Chronological Term 1976-
Subject United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989.
Chronological Term 1945-1989
Subject United States -- Foreign relations -- 1989-
Chronological Term 1989-
Subject POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General.
Diplomatic relations.
Chronological Term Since 1945
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Thurston, Anne F., editor.
Added Title Fifty years of Sino-American relations
Other Form: Print version: Engaging China New York : Columbia University Press, [2021] 9780231201285 (DLC) 2021001762
ISBN 0231554028 electronic book
9780231554022 electronic book
9780231201285 hardcover
9780231201292 trade paperback