China Tangle

Author : Herbert Feis
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400868278

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China Tangle by Herbert Feis Pdf

Contents: Foreword. Part One: From Pearl Harbor to the Cairo Conference. Part Two: From the Cairo Conference to the Surrender of Japan. Part Three: From the Surrender of Japan to the Marshall Mission. Originally published in 1953. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Herbert Feis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : China
ISBN : PSU:000065312926

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The China Tangle by Herbert Feis Pdf

Author : Herbert Feis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : China
ISBN : OCLC:1154397066

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The China Tangle by Herbert Feis Pdf

Author : Edward Earl Rice
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0520021991

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Mao's Way by Edward Earl Rice Pdf

"Sponsored by the Center for Chinese Studies, University of California, Berkeley." Bibliography: p. [574]-578.

Author : David D. Perlmutter
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2007-03-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780739158869

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Picturing China in the American Press by David D. Perlmutter Pdf

Picturing China in the American Press juxtaposes what the ordinary American news reader was shown visually inTime Magazine between 1949 and 1973 with contemporary perspectives on the behind-the-scenes history of the period. Time Magazine is an especially fruitful source for such a visual-historical contrast and comparison because it was China-centric, founded and run by Henry Luce, a man who loved China and was commensurably obsessed with winning China to democracy and Western influence. Picturing China examines in detail major events (the Korean War and Nixon's trip to China), less considerable occurrences (shellings of Straits islands and diplomatic flaps), great personages (Chairman Mao and Henry Kissinger), and the common people and common life of China as seen through the lenses and described by the pens of American reporters, artists, photographers, and editors. Picturing China in the American Press is of great interest to both scholars of communications, Chinese history, China Studies, and journalists.

Author : Adam S.R. Bartley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000766486

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Perceptions of China and White House Decision-Making, 1941-1963 by Adam S.R. Bartley Pdf

This book assesses and evaluates the decision-making behavior of United States presidents and their chief advisers from Roosevelt to Kennedy pertaining to China. Seeking to dispel with the notion that each administration sought policy outcomes on the basis of a rational decision-making model, Bartley highlights the contradictions of adopted presidential decision-making processes and the nature of domestic politics as playing prejudicial and debilitating roles. The book demonstrates that elite decision-making processes interacted with assumptions made about Chinese behavior, interests, and attitudes only superficially and in some cases not at all. Misinformation and misperception were the natural outcomes. Reinforced by the politics of McCarthyism at home, intellectual debate on China policy was squashed, parochialism and nuance were shunned, and information was closed off. Ultimately, a divorce between the norm of behavior and the search for rational policy was registered in each administration. The net result was a lasting and destructive cognitive dissonance: to fit expectations of a China reality constructed, information was ignored, overlooked, and distorted. Offering new insights into the China policies of consecutive administrations from 1941 to 1963, this volume will be of great interest to scholars and students of American foreign policy, security studies, and international relations.

Author : Jay Taylor
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674735248

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The Generalissimo by Jay Taylor Pdf

One of the most momentous stories of the last century is China’s rise from a self-satisfied, anti-modern, decaying society into a global power that promises to one day rival the United States. Chiang Kai-shek, an autocratic, larger-than-life figure, dominates this story. A modernist as well as a neo-Confucianist, Chiang was a man of war who led the most ancient and populous country in the world through a quarter century of bloody revolutions, civil conflict, and wars of resistance against Japanese aggression. In 1949, when he was defeated by Mao Zedong—his archrival for leadership of China—he fled to Taiwan, where he ruled for another twenty-five years. Playing a key role in the cold war with China, Chiang suppressed opposition with his “white terror,” controlled inflation and corruption, carried out land reform, and raised personal income, health, and educational levels on the island. Consciously or not, he set the stage for Taiwan’s evolution of a Chinese model of democratic modernization. Drawing heavily on Chinese sources including Chiang’s diaries, The Generalissimo provides the most lively, sweeping, and objective biography yet of a man whose length of uninterrupted, active engagement at the highest levels in the march of history is excelled by few, if any, in modern history. Jay Taylor shows a man who was exceedingly ruthless and temperamental but who was also courageous and conscientious in matters of state. Revealing fascinating aspects of Chiang’s life, Taylor provides penetrating insight into the dynamics of the past that lie behind the struggle for modernity of mainland China and its relationship with Taiwan.

Author : Carolle J. Carter
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813182940

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Mission to Yenan by Carolle J. Carter Pdf

A deep dive into the Dixie Mission. “Aficionados of American political and diplomatic history may be pleasantly surprised at the riches in this book.” —American Historical Review Conventional wisdom informs us that “only Nixon could go to China.” In fact, in 1944, nearly thirty years before his historic trip, the American military established the first liaison and intelligence-gathering mission with the Chinese Communists in Yenan. Commonly referred to as the Dixie Mission, the detached military unit sent to Yenan was responsible for transmitting weather information, assisting the Communists in their rescue of downed American flyers, and laying the groundwork for an eventual rapprochement between the Communists and Nationalists, the two sides struggling in the ongoing Chinese Civil War. Following extensive use of archival sources and numerous interviews with the men who traveled and served in Yenan, Carolle Carter argues that while Dixie fulfilled its assignment, the members steered the mission in different directions from its original, albeit loosely described, intent. As the months and years passed, the Dixie Mission increasingly emphasized intelligence gathering over evaluating their Communist hosts’ contribution to the war effort against Japan. Some American politicians in the 1950s portrayed the participants in the Dixie Mission as too sympathetic to the Chinese Communists. But during the 1970s many looked back at these individuals as wise but ignored oracles who could have prevented the “loss of China.” Carter strips away these simplistic portrayals to reveal a diverse and dedicated collection of soldiers, diplomats, and technicians who had ongoing contact with the Chinese Communists longer than any other group during World War II, but who were destined to be a largely unused resource during the Cold War.

Author : Douglas J. Macdonald,Robert James Nelson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Asia
ISBN : 0674005775

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Adventures in Chaos by Douglas J. Macdonald,Robert James Nelson Pdf

Can--or should--the United States try to promote reform in client states in the Third World? This question, which reverberates through American foreign policy, is at the heart of Adventures in Chaos. A faltering friendly state, in danger of falling to hostile forces, presents the U.S. with three options: withdraw, bolster the existing government, or try to reform it. Douglas Macdonald defines the circumstances that call these policy options into play, combining an analysis of domestic politics in the U. S., cognitive theories of decision making, and theories of power relations drawn from sociology, economics, and political science. He examines the conditions that promote the reformist option and then explores strategies for improving the success of reformist intervention in the future. In order to identify problems in this policy--and to propose solutions--Macdonald focuses on three case studies of reformist intervention in Asia: China, 1946-1948; the Philippines, 1950-1953; and Vietnam, 1961-1963. Striking similarities in these cases suggest that such policy dilemmas are a function of the global role played by the U.S., especially during the Cold War. Though this role is changing, Macdonald foresees future applications for the lessons his study offers. A challenge to the conventional wisdom on reformist intervention, Adventures in Chaos--through extensive archival research--displays a theoretical and historical depth often lacking in treatments of the subject.

Author : Peng Deng
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0819193135

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China's Crisis and Revolution Through American Lenses, 1944-1949 by Peng Deng Pdf

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Author : James C. Hsiung,Steven I. Levine
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315287676

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China's Bitter Victory by James C. Hsiung,Steven I. Levine Pdf

"China's Bitter Victory" is a comprehensive analysis of China's epochal war with Japan. Striving for a holistic understanding of China's wartime experience, the contributors examine developments in the Nationalist, communist, and Japanese-occupied areas of the country. More than just a history of battles and conferences, the book portrays the significant impact of the war on every dimension of Chinese life, including politics, the economy, culture, legal affairs, and science. For within the overriding struggle for national survival, the competition for political goals continued. China ultimately triumphed, but at a price of between 15 and 20 million lives and vast destruction of property and resources. And China's bitter victory brought new trials for the Chinese people in the form of civil war and revolution. This book tells the story of China during a crucial period pregnant with consequences not only for China but also for Asia and the world as well. Addressed to students, scholars, and general readers, the book aims to fill a gap in the existing literature on modern Chinese history and on World War II.

Author : Robert G. Sutter
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442218079

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U.S.-Chinese Relations by Robert G. Sutter Pdf

This lucid assessment of the historical and contemporary determinants of Sino-American relations, now comprehensively updated, explains the conflicted engagement between the two governments. Offering a welcome richness of discussion and analysis, distinguished analyst Robert G. Sutter explores the twists and turns of the relationship over the past two hundred years. The mixed historical record convincingly shows that strong differences and mutual suspicions persist, only partly overridden by a mutual pragmatism that shifts with circumstances. As the only book on the subject that combines a unified assessment of the historical evolution, contemporary status, and likely prospects of U.S.-Chinese relations, this balanced and pragmatic study will be an essential resource for all concerned with the globe's most crucial bilateral partnership.

Author : Library of Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 954 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : PURD:32754083038889

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Library of Congress Subject Headings by Library of Congress Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1032 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : United States
ISBN : MINN:31951001228455Y

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The Department of State Bulletin by Anonim Pdf

The official monthly record of United States foreign policy.

Author : Robert Dallek
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1995-05-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195357059

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Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945 by Robert Dallek Pdf

Since the original publication of this classic book in 1979, Roosevelt's foreign policy has come under attack on three main points: Was Roosevelt responsible for the confrontation with Japan that led to the attack at Pearl Harbor? Did Roosevelt "give away" Eastern Europe to Stalin and the U.S.S.R. at Yalta? And, most significantly, did Roosevelt abandon Europe's Jews to the Holocaust, making no direct effort to aid them? In a new Afterword to his definitive history, Dallek vigorously and brilliantly defends Roosevelt's policy. He emphasizes how Roosevelt operated as a master politician in maintaining a national consensus for his foreign policy throughout his presidency and how he brilliantly achieved his policy and military goals.