Now fully revised and updated, The United States and China offers a comprehensive synthesis of US-Chinese relations from initial contact to the present. Balancing the modern (1784-1949) and contemporary (1949-present) periods, Dong Wang retraces centuries of interaction between two of the world's great powers from the perspective of both sides. She examines state-to-state diplomacy, as well as economic, social, military, religious, and cultural interplay within varying national and international contexts. As China itself continues to grow in global importance, so too does the US-Chinese relationship, and this book provides an essential grounding for understanding its past, present, and possible futures.
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By Dong Wang
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Now fully revised and updated, The United States and China offers a comprehensive synthesis of US-Chinese relations from initial contact to the present. Balancing the modern (1784-1949) and contemporary (1949-present) periods, Dong Wang retraces centuries of interaction between two of the world's great powers from the perspective of both sides. She examines state-to-state diplomacy, as well as economic, social, military, religious, and cultural interplay within varying national and international contexts. As China itself continues to grow in global importance, so too does the US-Chinese relationship, and this book provides an essential grounding for understanding its past, present, and possible futures.
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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: The Pacific Frontier and Qing China, 17841911
1 Yankee Merchants and the China Trade
2 Opium Wars and the Open Door
3 Chinese Immigration: Roots in the United States
4 American Protestantism: Roots in China
Part II: The United States and China in the Era of World Wars and Revolutions, 19121970
5 Revolutions, Nationalism, and Internationalization
6 The Pacific War and Red China
7 Deterrence and Negotiation: American-Chinese Relations at the height of the Cold War
8 Facing East and West: Agents of Encounter
Part III: Rapprochement, the United States as the Benchmark Setter, and the China Challenge, 1970Present
9 Renewing the Bilateral Relationship, 19701989
10 The China Market and the Allure of the United States
11 Clashes, Cooperation, and Fluctuations in the Relationship
12 The Race: Changing Dynamics in the Economic, Social, and Cultural Arenas
Epilogue
Bibliography
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