From Allies to Enemies : : Visions of Modernity, Identity, and U.S.–China Diplomacy, 1945–1960 / / Simei Qing.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Qing, Simei,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (410 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction: Cultural Visions and Foreign Policy --; Chapter one. Perceptions and Realities: Chinese and American Visions of Modernity and Identity --; Chapter two. Straining the Relationship: Truman and the Reconstruction of China after World War II --; Chapter three. Disillusionment and Polarization: The Failure of the Marshall Mission and Deepening Divisions in Nationalist China --; Chapter four. New American Strategies Debates over the Chinese Communist Party and Taiwan in the Truman Administration --; Chapter five. Two Sides of One Coin The CCP’s Policies toward the Soviet Union and the United States --; Chapter six. From Adversaries to Enemies Military Confrontation in Korea --; Chapter seven. Inducement versus Containment U.S. China Policy under Eisenhower --; Chapter eight. The Foundation of New China: Conflicting CCP Visions of Industrialization in the 1950s --; Chapter nine. Mao’s Magic Weapon From a Gradualist Political Program to the Hundred Flowers Policy --; Chapter ten. Becoming First-Class Citizens of the World China’s Diplomacy of Peaceful Coexistence --; Conclusion: Ways of War and Peace --; Notes --; Primary Sources --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674278110; 9783110442205
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674278110
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Simei Qing.

In a stunningly original work about the impact of cultural perceptions in international relations, Simei Qing offers a new perspective on relations between the United States and China after World War II. From debates over Taiwan in the Truman administration to military confrontation in Korea to relations with the Soviet Union, Qing explores how policies on both sides became persistently counterproductive. Implicit moral and cultural values became woven into policy rationales for both China and the United States. Cultural visions of modernity and understandings of identity played a critical role in each nation's evaluation of the other's intentions and in defining interests and principles in their diplomatic relationship. Based on American, Russian, and newly declassified Chinese sources, this book reveals rarely examined assumptions that were entrenched in mainstream policy debates on both sides, and sheds light on the origins and development of U.S.-China confrontations that continue to resonate today. Simei Qing also provides a compelling look at the vital role of deeply anchored visions in the origins of human military conflicts.