Engaging China

Fifty Years of Sino-American Relations

Anne Thurston

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Columbia University Press
13 July 2021

History; International relations

Series: A Nancy Bernkopf Tucker and Warren I. Cohen Book on American–East Asian Relations

The importance of the relationship between the United States and the People's Republic of China has only grown since Richard Nixon's epochal visit in 1972. By the early twenty-first century, when the rise of China had become an inescapable fact, most American policy makers and experts saw bilateral ties with China as the most consequential foreign-relations priority for the United States.

In recent years, even before the coronavirus pandemic, the U.S.–China relationship has rapidly deteriorated-and the whole world has felt the consequences. This book brings together leading China specialists to offer a retrospective on relations between the United States and China over the last half-century and consider what might be next. The contributors-including academics, leaders of China-related nongovernmental organizations, and former diplomats and government officials-analyze the relationship from a range of perspectives: political, diplomatic, economic, social, cultural, commercial, educational, medical, and military. They reassess American engagement with China from the late Mao years onward, covering leaders from Deng Xiaoping through Xi Jinping. The contributors highlight not only the accomplishments and hard-won successes of engagement but also the mistakes and misunderstandings, acknowledging the well-earned distrust and genuine frictions that plague the relationship today.

Multidisciplinary and comprehensive, Engaging China is a vital reconsideration for a time when the stakes of U.S. policy toward China have never been higher.

By: Anne Thurston
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9780231201292
ISBN 10: 023120129X
Series: A Nancy Bernkopf Tucker and Warren I. Cohen Book on American–East Asian Relations
Pages: 472
Publication Date: 13 July 2021
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Anne F. Thurston is the former director of the Grassroots China Initiative and senior research professor at the Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies. She has written or edited many books about China, including Enemies of the People: The Ordeal of the Intellectuals in China's Great Cultural Revolution (1987); A Chinese Odyssey: The Life and Times of a Chinese Dissident (1991); Li Zhisui's The Private Life of Chairman Mao (1994), and, with Gyalo Thondup, The Noodle Maker of Kalimpong: The Untold Story of My Struggle for Tibet (2015).

Reviews for Engaging China: Fifty Years of Sino-American Relations

Engaging China offers a nuanced understanding that there was no single framework, assumption, or motivation behind the increasing interdependence with China that developed after 1971. Moreover, the volume demonstrates that there was connectivity and thinking about relations well before 1971. The book will be an essential textbook for students, resource for policy makers, and a good read for the general public. -- Michael J. Green, author of <i>By More than Providence: Grand Strategy and American Power in the Asia Pacific Since 1783</i>