A Partnership for Disorder: China, the United States, and their Policies for the Postwar Disposition of the Japanese Empire, 1941-1945

by Xiaoyuan Liu

Overview

A Partnership of Disorder examines the American-Chinese foreign policy planning in World War II for decolonizing the Japanese Empire and controlling Japan after the war. The study reveals how their disagreements on many concrete issues prevented the two governments from forging an effective partnership. Among these issues were the role of the Soviet Union and the meaning of Asian nationalism. At the war's end, the victorious Allies were neither in cooperation among themselves nor in a position to cope with the upheavals in Asia.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521550994
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	06/28/1996
Pages:	362
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.94(d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments; Note on romanization; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The making of an alliance; 2. The issue of postwar Japan; 3. China's lost territories; 4. Korea's independence; 5. The road to Cairo; 6. A divisive summit; 7. Yan'an and postwar East Asia; 8. Diplomacy without action; 9. Erosion of a partnership; 10. The Manchurian triangle; 11. Bargaining at Moscow; 12. Epilogue: the crisis of peace; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.

Editorial Reviews

"Although much information presented here is familiar, the result is a more complete and balanced diplomatics history of the Pacific War and a more complex quilt of of controversial issues....Xiaoyuan Liu's well-written monograph provides a challenging and insightful account of one of the most stressful periods in the diplomatic history of China and the United States. Filled with abundant detail and analysis....This diplomatic history should be essential reading for anyone interested in a full account of United States-China relations during World War II." Leonard H.D. Gordon, The Journal of Asian Studies

"Xiaoyuan Liu's bok is a good example of the usefulness and the limitations of traditional diplomatic history when applied to a period of war and revolutionary change." Journal of American History

"...a fine book that should dominate the literature on animportant topic for a long time to come." William Stueck, American Historical Review

"In this impressively researched study of Sino-American relations during World War II, Xiaoyuan Liu refreshingly attributes agency to China and challenges the entrenched interpretation that China, despite its vision of grandeur, was a hopelessly divided and ineffectual belligerent." Sayri Shimizu, Historian

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