9780674025943 - Normalization of U.S.-China Relations: An International History (Harvard East Asian Monographs, Band 254) (5 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: New. Offers a multi-archival review of the history of Chinese-American conflict and cooperation in the 1970s. Editor(s): Kirby, William C.; Ross, Robert S.; Li, Gong. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 425 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KBB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 143 x 29. Weight in Grams: 556. . 2007. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Trade paperback. Zustand: Very good. First Paperback Edition 2007 [stated]. xxii, 376, [18] pages. Notes. Index. Harvard East Asian Monographs 254. William C. Kirby (born 1950) is an American historian and sinologist currently serving as T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies and Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration at Harvard University. He is the chairman of the Harvard China Fund, Faculty Chair of the Harvard Center Shanghai, Harvard's first University-wide center located outside the United States, former Director of Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, former Chair of the History Department and the former Dean of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Robert S. Ross (born April 9, 1954) is a professor of political science at Boston College, associate of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University, senior advisor of the security studies program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is one of the foremost American specialists on Chinese foreign and defense policy and U.S.-China relations. Relations between China and the United States have been of central importance to both countries over the past half-century, as well as to all states affected by that relationship--Taiwan and the Soviet Union foremost among them. Only recently, however, has the opening of archives made it possible to research this history dispassionately. The eight chapters in this volume offer the first multinational, multi-archival review of the history of Chinese-American conflict and cooperation in the 1970s. On the Chinese side, normalization of relations was instrumental to Beijing's effort to enhance its security vis-a-vis the Soviet Union and was seen as a tactical necessity to promote Chinese military and economic interests. The United States was equally motivated by national security concerns. In the wake of Vietnam, policymakers saw normalization as a means of forestalling Soviet power. As the essays in this volume show, normalization was far from a foregone conclusion. From the back cover- Relations between China and the United States have been of central importance to both countries over the past half-centurry, as well as to all states affected by that relationship--Taiwan and the Soviet Union foremost among them. Only recently, however, has the opening of archives made it possible to research this history in depth. The eight chapters in this volume, written by scholars in China, North America, and Europe, offer the first multinational, multi-archival review of the history of Chinese-American conflict and cooperation in the 1970s.".