China Confidential: American Diplomats and Sino-American Relations, 1945-1996 - Rilegato

Tucker, Nancy Bernkopf

9780231106306: China Confidential: American Diplomats and Sino-American Relations, 1945-1996

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ISBN 10: 0231106300 ISBN 13: 9780231106306

Casa editrice: Columbia Univ Pr, 2001

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In the past sixty years, relations between China and the United States have fluctuated wildly. Such divisive issues as human rights, the future of Tibet and Taiwan, trade imbalances, and illegal immigration have fueled intense debate over how the United States should deal with the most populous nation in the world.

Nancy Bernkopf Tucker brings together a wide range of interviews on these and other issues, recorded by the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training, with key players in the making and execution of U.S. policy towards China since World War II. Historical events usch as Nixon's trip to China, the Tiananmen Massacre, and the recurring Taiwan Straits crises come to life as never before. Portraits of the essential personalities in Sino-American relations emerge from the pages ofChina Confidential, including Mao Zedong, Henry Kissinger, Zhou Enlai, Ronald Reagan, Chiang Kai-shek, Chiang Ching-kuo, and Lee Teng-hui.

This rich array of interviews provides the context for understanding the otherwise baffling diplomatic interaction between the United States and China, shedding light on the circumstances under which difficult and crucial decisions were reached and revealing the background and biases of the people who made and carried out those policies.

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Nancy Bernkopf Tucker is professor of history at Georgetown University and the Georgetown School of Foreign Service. She is one of the nation's leading authorities on Sino-American relations and the author ofPatterns in the Dust and Uncertain Friendships: Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the United States, winner of the Bernath Prize of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.