Engaging China : : Fifty Years of Sino-American Relations / / Anne Thurston.

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...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:A Nancy Bernkopf Tucker and Warren I. Cohen Book on American–East Asian Relations
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 14 b&w figures
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Part I. The Making and Unmaking of the U.S.-China Relationship
  • 1. Engaging China: Fifty Years of Sino-American Relations
  • 2. The Logic and Efficacy of Engagement: Objectives, Assumptions, and Impacts
  • 3. Mismanaging China’s Rise: The South China Sea Dispute and the Transformation of Sino-American Relations from Strategic Partners to Strategic Rivals
  • 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
  • 5. The American Dream and the China Dream: Unpeaceful Evolutions
  • 6. U.S.-China Retrospective: Forty Years of Commercial Relations
  • 7. A Perspective on Chinese Economics: What Have We Learned? What Did We Fail to Anticipate?
  • Part III. On the Ground Nongovernmental, People-To-People Cooperation
  • 8. Strategic Adaptation: American Foundations, Religious Organizations, and NGOs in China
  • 9. U.S.-China Relations: A Public Health Perspective
  • 10. Thinkers. Builders. Symbols. Spies? Sino-U.S. Educational Relations in the Engagement Era
  • 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
  • 12. China’s Periphery: A Rift Zone in U.S.-China Relations
  • 13. Forty-Plus Years of U.S.-China Diplomacy: Realities and Recommendations
  • 14. Engagement with China: A Eulogy and Reflections on a Gathering Storm
  • Afterword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contributors
  • Index