Re-Examining the Cold War: U.S.-China Diplomacy, 1954-1973

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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. Re-examining the Cold War: U.S.-China Diplomacy, 1954–1973 Acknowledgments Contents Preface Contributors Introduction 1. The Two Chinas in rhe Global Setting: Sino-Soviet and Sino-American Cooperation in the 1950s 2. The Changing International Scene and Chinese Policy toward the United States, 1954–1970 3· Over the Volcano: The United States and the Taiwan Strait Crisis, 1954–1955 4· "A Thorn in the Side of Peace":The Eisenhower Administration and the 1958 Offshore Islands Crisis 5. Tension across the Taiwan Strait in the 1950s: Chinese Strategy and T aeries 6. Steering Wheel, Shock Absorber, and Diplomatic Probe in Confrontation: Sino-American Ambassadorial Talks Seen from the Chinese Perspective 7· Dialogue of the Deaf~: The Sino-American Ambassadorial-Level Talks, 1955-1970 8. The Johnson Administration, China, and the Vietnam War 9· Redefinitions:The Domestic Context of America's China Policy in the 1960s 10. Changes in China's Domestic Situation in the 1960s and Sino-U.S. Relations 11. Chinese Decision Making and the Thawing of U.S.-China Relations 12. Detente and the Strategic Triangle: Or, "Drinking Your Mao T ai and Having Your Vodka, Too" Notes Index Harvard East Asian Monographs