The United States and China Into the Twenty-First Century

by Schaller, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780195137583
• ISBN10: 0195137582
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-01-10
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

From the Opium Wars of the 1840s, to the Red Scare of the 1940s, through the Tiananmen "massacre" of 1989, and the Wen Ho Lee "espionage case" of 2000, Chinese-American relations have swung like a pendulum throughout the years. I The United States and China: Into the Twenty-First Century--nowin its third edition and thoroughly revised and updated--looks at over a century of Chinese-American turmoil from a dual perspective, examining how two dramatically different cultures interacted and collided. Based on research by the author as well as by scholars in both countries, it examines theperiodic cooperation and hostility between both governments and people in the United States and China. The book places special emphasis on understanding China's unique role in the Cold War and its centrality to the American obsession with the Vietnam War. It explains the interactions betweendomestic policies in China and the United States and their international behavior. The discussion of the post-World War II period, which constitutes a major portion of this textbook, has been completely revised to incorporate a vast new body of primary materials and research monographs written byChinese and American scholars since 1990. Two entirely new chapters analyze Chinese-American relations during the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton administrations and examine the paradox of how, despite increasingly close social, political, and economic cooperation, fear of China has again become part ofthe American political debate.

Table of Contents

Preface	viii
The Gate of Heavenly Peace	1	(25)
Asia in Disorder, 1890s-1936	26	(23)
From the Marco Polo Bridge to Pearl Harbor	49	(18)
The Chinese-American Alliance	67	(20)
Americans Encounter the Chinese Revolution, 1942-1945	87	(18)
``Who Lost China?'' The United States and the Chinese Revolution, from the Marshall Mission to the Creation of the People's Republic	105	(16)
Red Scare and Yellow Peril: The Korean War	121	(19)
From Old Frontiers to New Frontiers: Chinese-American Conflict during the Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson Administrations, 1953-1969	140	(24)
``Only Nixon Could Go to China'': Sino-American Detente, 1969-1974	164	(21)
``Tacit Allies'' to Tiananmen: China and Presidents Ford, Carter, Reagan, and Bush, 1974-1992	185	(24)
Into the Twenty-First Century	209	(22)
Index	231