The United States and China : a history from the eighteenth century to the present /

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'...

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Main Author: Wang, Dong, 1967- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2021]
Edition:Second edition.
Series:Asia/Pacific/perspectives.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part I: The Pacific Frontier and Qing China, 1784-1911 : 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, 1912-1970 : 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, 1970-Present : 9. Renewing the Bilateral Relationship, 1970-1989
  • 10. The China Market and the Allure of the United States
  • 11. Clashes, Cooperation, the Fluctuations in the Relationship
  • 12. The Race: Changing Dynamics in the Economic, Social, and Cultural Arenas
  • Epilogue.