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

Qing, Simei, author.
2022
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Title
From Allies to Enemies : Visions of Modernity, Identity, and U.S.-China Diplomacy, 1945-1960 / Simei Qing.
Author
Qing, Simei, author.
ISBN
9780674278110
DOI
https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674278110
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2022]
Copyright
©2007
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource (410 p.)
Item Number
10.4159/9780674278110 doi
Summary
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.
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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
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