Why did China enter the Korean War? What made Mao Zedong, only one year after the
establishment of the People's Republic of China, decide to assist North Korea in fighting a …

This absorbing study examines the change in American relations with China after 1949 from
hostility to rapproachement, and to full normalization of the ties in 1979. Rosemary Foot …

Lu Ning, former assistant to a vice-foreign minister of China, draws on archival materials,
interviews, and personal experiences, to provide unique insights into the formal and informal …

States use wedge strategies to prevent hostile alliances from forming or to disperse those
that have formed. These strategies can cause power alignments that are otherwise unlikely …

This major global history of the twentieth century is written by four prominent international
historians for first-year undergraduate level and upward. Using their thematic and regional …

" A very good attempt to give a coherent and consistent account of the China-US contacts
during the Cold War....[R] eaders will certainly gain a better understanding of this interesting …

Much has changed in US-China relations since the first edition of this book over a decade
ago alerted readers to balance outwardly positive discourse in multiple bilateral dialogues …

Paths to Peace begins by developing a theory about the domestic obstacles to making
peace and the role played by shifts in states' governing coalitions in overcoming these …

Abstract The study of Cold War international history in China has made major strides in the
past two decades. By using newly available Chinese sources, augmented by sources from …

Now fully revised and updated, The United States and China offers a comprehensive
synthesis of US-Chinese relations from initial contact to the present. Balancing the modern …