America's Response to China: A History of Sino-American Relations / Edition 3

by Warren I. Cohen

Overview

Given the many important developments in Sino-American relations in the past decade, there is a desperate need for a succinct, historically grounded assessment of the increasingly contentious and complicated relationship between these two giants of the world stage. This classic text by one of America´s leading diplomatic historians analyzes the concerns and conceptions that have shaped U.S.­China policy -as well as of their important consequences.In its first three editions, America´s Response to China set the standard for introductions to this important topic. This 4th Edition is the most up-to-date work on the subject. Starting with a discussion of the mercantile interests of the newly independent American colonies and ranging through the dramatic causes and effects of the Tiananmen Square Massacre, America´s Response to China, 4th Edition continues into the Bush and Clinton years, utilizing material available only in the last five to ten years. With equal parts trenchant analysis and insightful synthesis, Warren I. Cohen provides an excellent summary of U.S.­China relations on the eve of the twenty-first century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231068048
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	01/01/1990
Edition description:	3rd ed
Pages:	260
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Warren I. Cohen is Distinguished University Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Table of Contents

Contributors Introduction, Richard W. Bulliet
1. High Culture, Richard W. Bulliet
2. Popular Culture, Richard W. Bulliet
3. The "Woman Question", Rosalind Rosenberg
4. Religion, Zachary Karabell
5. Athletics: Play and Politics, Jean-Marc Ran Oppenheim
6. Ethnicity and Racism, J. Paul Martin
7. Imperialism and Decolonization, Ainslee Embree
8. Nationalism, James Mayall
9. Socialism and Communism, Sheila Fitzpatrick
10. The International Order, Akira Iriye
11. War: Institution Without Portfolio, Robert L. O'Connell
12. Industry and Business, William N. Parker
13. Money and Economic Change, William C. McNeil
14. Technology and Invention, Christopher Freeman
15. Agriculture: Crops, Livestock, and Farmers, B. F. Stanton
16. Communications, Jahan Salehi and Richard W. Bulliet
17. Transportation, John C. Spychalski
18. Scientific Thought, Eric Holtzman
19. Paths to Discovery, Neil Degrasse Tyson
20. Twentieth-Century Medicine, David Rosner
21. Ecology and the Environment, Mary Corliss Pearl
22. Cities, Kenneth T. Jackson
23. Demography and Population Movements, Georges Sabagh
24. Epilogue: The Twenty-first Century, Richard W. Bulliet Index — American Historical Review

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