Re-examining the Cold War: U.S.-China Diplomacy, 1954-1973 (Harvard East Asian Monographs) [Paperback]

Robert S. Ross (Editor), Mr.] Changbin Jiang (Editor), Robert Accinelli (Contributor), Rosemary Foot (Contributor), Steven M. Goldstein (Contributor), Li Gong (Contributor), Qingguo Jia (Contributor), William C. Kirby (Contributor), Jie Li (Contributor), Ronald W. Pruessen (Contributor), Michael Schaller (Contributor), Robert D. Schulzinger (Contributor), Baijia Zhang (Contributor)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 30, 2002 | ISBN-10: 0674005260 | ISBN-13: 978-0674005266

The twelve essays in this volume underscore the similarities between Chinese and American approaches to bilateral diplomacy and between their perceptions of each other's policy-making motivations. Much of the literature on U.S.-China relations posits that each side was motivated either by ideologically informed interests or by ideological assumptions about its counterpart. But as these contributors emphasize, newly accessible archives suggest rather that both Beijing and Washington developed a responsive and tactically adaptable foreign policy. Each then adjusted this policy in response to changing international circumstances and changing assessments of its counterpart's policies. Motivated less by ideology than by pragmatic national security concerns, each assumed that the other faced similar considerations.

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Editorial Reviews

Review

This enthralling volume is a product of current Sino-U.S. scholarly co-operation. It makes full use of recently released Chinese and American official archives, and provides a fascinating and instructive account of how two mutually hostile powers nevertheless found it possible--indeed imperative--to communicate with each other.
--Victor Funnell (Asian Affairs )

About the Author

Robert S. Ross is Professor of Political Science at Boston College and a Research Associate at the John King Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University.

Jiang Changbin is Director of the International Strategic Research Institute at the Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party in Beijing.

Robert Accinelli is Professor of History at the University of Toronto.

Rosemary Foot is Professor of International Relations and the John Swire Senior Research Fellow at St. Antony's College, University of Oxford.

Steven M. Goldstein is Sophia Smith Professor of Government at Smith College.

Gong Li is Professor of International Relations at the International Strategic Research Center, Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party.

Jia Quingguo is Professor and Dean of the School of International Relations at Peking University.

a href="http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~fairbank" target="new"> the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University.

Li Jie is Professor in the Department for Research on Party Documents, Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.

Ronald W. Pruessen is Chair of the Department of History at the University of Toronto.

Michael Schaller is Professor of History at the University of Arizona.

Robert D. Schulzinger is Professor of History and Director of the International Affairs Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Zhang Baijia is Research Professor of the Party History Research Center of the Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party.

Product Details

• Paperback: 528 pages
• Publisher: Harvard University Asia Center (January 30, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0674005260
• ISBN-13: 978-0674005266
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.2 inches
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