America's Response to China: A History of Sino-American Relations

by Warren I. Cohen

Overview

America’s Response to China has long been the standard resource for a succinct, historically grounded assessment of an increasingly complicated relationship. For this sixth edition, Warren I. Cohen adds an analysis of the policies of Barack Obama and the complications of the presidency of Donald Trump.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231191982
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	09/24/2019
Edition description:	sixth edition
Pages:	360
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Warren I. Cohen is Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. His Columbia University Press books include A Nation Like All Others: A Brief History of American Foreign Relations (2018) and East Asia at the Center: Four Thousand Years of Engagement with the World (2000).

Table of Contents

Preface to the Sixth Edition ix

Acknowledgments to the Sixth Edition xi

Romanization Table xiii

Prologue: The Barbarians and the Tribute System 1

1 The Development of the Treaty System 8

2 The United States as a Power in East Asia 29

3 In the Light of the Rising Sun 60

4 The Response to Chinese Nationalism 89

5 China as an Abstraction-The Conflict with Japan 115

6 Communism in China 148

7 The Great Aberration 195

8 Rapprochement-At Last 215

9 In the Shadow of Tiananmen 232

10 America in the Age of Chinese Power 263

Concluding Thoughts 297

Notes 305

Bibliographical Essay 311

Index 327

Editorial Reviews

A fresh new look at the history of United States diplomacy towards China....The subject will never be the same again.

John King Fairbank

Warren Cohen . . . [is] the leading historian of Sino-American relations of his generation. This book has much to offer both newcomers to its subject as well as those who have been studying relations between these two countries nearly as long as its author.

Steven I. Levine

The first edition was published in 1971, and the second about nine years later. Cohen (history dept. and Asians Studies Center, Michigan State U.) has revised and brought up to date this account of the evolution of Sino-American relations from purely commercial interests to complex geopolitical and ideological concerns. The bibliography is in the form of a guiding essay. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

Cohen . . . [is] the leading historian of Sino-American relations of his generation. This book has much to offer both newcomers to its subject as well as those who have been studying relations between these two countries nearly as long as its author.

American Diplomacy

Lucid and concise... a model of its kind, thoughtful, even-tempered, and extremely well-written.

Pacific Historical Review

A fresh new look at the history of United States diplomacy towards China.... The subject will never be the same again.

John King Fairbankn Political Science Review

Careful, well-documented.

Political Science Quarterly

Provocative and perceptive.

China Quarterly

A venerable work.

The Daily Beast - Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom

A fresh new look at the history of United States diplomacy toward China . . . The subject will never be the same again.

American Political Science Review - John King Fairbank

Warren Cohen... [is] the leading historian of Sino-American relations of his generation. This book has much to offer both newcomers to its subject as well as those who have been studying relations between these two countries nearly as long as its author.

American Diplomacy - Steven I. Levine

A venerable work.

— Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom

The Daily Beast

A fresh new look at the history of United States diplomacy towards China.... The subject will never be the same again.

— John King Fairbank

American Political Science Review