About Face

by MANN, JAMES

• ISBN13: 9780679768616
• ISBN10: 0679768610
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2000-02-15
• Publisher: Vintage

Summary

"Mann's colorful and detailed narrative, studded with dozens of vivid anecdotes, reveals how ineptly [we] have managed our ties with the world's most populous nation." --The Washington Post Book World Drawing on hundreds of previously classified documents, scores of interviews, and his own experience, James Mann, formerLos Angeles TimesBeijing bureau chief, presents the fascinating inside story of contemporary U.S.-China relations. President Nixon and Secretary of State Kissinger began their diplomacy with China in an attempt to find a way out of Vietnam. The remaining Cold War presidents saw China as an ally against the Soviet Union and looked askance at its violations of international principles. With the end of communism and China's continued human rights abuses, the U.S has failed to forge a genuinely new relationship with China. This is the essential story of contemporary U.S./China policy.

Author Biography

James Mann lives in Silver Spring, Maryland.

Table of Contents

Prologue	3	(13)
Opening Moves	13	(13)
The Kissinger and Nixon Trips	26	(27)
Tacit Allies	53	(25)
Carter and Recognition	78	(18)
Carter's Cold War	96	(19)
Ronald Reagan and Taiwan	115	(19)
Reagan and the Golden Years	134	(21)
Trouble in Paradise	155	(20)
A New President Confronts Upheaval in China	175	(19)
The Immediate Aftermath of Tiananmen	194	(16)
George Bush Misjudges	210	(16)
Stirrings of a New Decade	226	(20)
China's Long March Back to Respectability	246	(8)
A Campaign and an Arms Sale	254	(20)
Enter President Clinton	274	(18)
Clinton's Retreat	292	(23)
Crisis over Taiwan	315	(24)
The 1996 Campaign and Its Aftermath	339	(30)
Conclusion	369	(8)
Afterword to the Vintage Edition	377	(4)
Note on the Spelling of Chinese Names	381	(2)
Notes	383	(36)
Acknowledgments	419	(2)
Index	421