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1 online resource (xi, 270 pages) |
| Summary |
The trading relationship between the United States and China, though now robust, was a recent and hardly inevitable development. Political animosity stemming from the Korean War and America's subsequent strategic embargo of China broke off economic and cultural ties. Following two decades of China's international isolation, as the United States sought to realign the geopolitical order in the 1970s, Washington began to engineer a restoration of its relationship with China. Diplomatic historians have carefully documented the formal and governmental intrigues of Nixon, Kissinger, Mao, and Zhou Enlai. As this book shows, a vigorous reconstruction of bilateral ties was unfolding simultaneously at the level of informal diplomacy, especially in the realm of US-China trade. Central to understanding the renewal of bilateral commerce is the National Council for United States-China Trade, an organization that, although nongovernmental, was established in 1973 with Washington's encouragement and oversight. The Council organized major American corporations not only to engage in commercial exchanges with China, but also to function as a diplomatic backchannel between Washington and Beijing before the two nations restored formal relations in 1979. Using the Council to historicize the entangling of the American and Chinese economies, Forgotten Vanguard not only reveals globalization's contingent path but also exposes the hidden importance of informal trade diplomacy in building the modern US-China relationship. This book will appeal to those with an interest in Cold War history, international relations, and the history of American diplomacy, with particular emphases on informal diplomacy and the modern history of the US-China economic relationship. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: the forgotten importance of the National Council -- Disorder under heaven: the deep uncertainty of Sino-American trade -- Backchannel to China: the nontraditional diplomacy of the National Council -- Informal trade diplomacy in detente and rapprochement: a comparative analysis -- The National Council, 1974-1977: capability and contingency -- Deng Xiaoping, the Council, and the normalization breakthrough, 1977-1980 -- Conclusion: a changed China, a changed National Council. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
National Council for United States-China Trade.
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National Council for United States-China Trade |
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United States -- Foreign economic relations -- China.
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China -- Foreign economic relations -- United States.
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United States -- Foreign relations -- China.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Exports & Imports. |
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- International -- General. |
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- International -- Marketing. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- Trade & Tariffs. |
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Diplomatic relations |
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International economic relations |
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China |
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United States |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Talley, Christian, 1993- Forgotten vanguard. Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2018] 9780268102975 (DLC) 2017055614 (OCoLC)1018462507 |
| ISBN |
9780268102999 (electronic bk.) |
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0268102996 (electronic bk.) |
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9780268103002 (epub) |
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0268103003 (epub) |
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9780268102975 (hardcover ; alk. paper) |
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026810297X (hardcover ; alk. paper) |
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