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Drawing on previously classified British and American documents and private papers, Zhai compares the respective policies toward the recognition of China and that country's representation in the UN; China's entry into the Korean War; the Geneva Conference of 1954; the Quemoy-Matsu crises of 1954-55 and 1958; and Chinese threats to Taiwan and Tibet. (For this item please quote stock ID 11940) ISBN: 9780873384902

From President Nixon's historic visit to China in 1972 to the aftermath of the Tiananmen tragedy, this book examines the changing perceptions of the United States articulated by China's 'America Watchers' whose occupation is to interpret the 'beautiful imperialist' for China's elite and public. While other studies have looked at the behavioural history of U.S.-China relations, this is the first to probe the perceptual dimension. 'David Shambaugh has uncovered a story that shocks and dismays me because I for one . . . was innocent of the extent to which the supposedly best-informed Chinese are both ignorant and critical of America' - Lucian W. Pye, The China Quarterly 'An important, pioneering study by one of a select group of younger American IR specialists. . .' - John Watt, The American Asian Review 'This path-breaking study . . . concludes that there is a large perception gap in U.S.-China relations. . .[Both] sides are imbued with a severe case of cognitive dissonance, wishful thinking, misinformation, and misperception' - Donald S. Zagoria, Foreign Affairs (For this item please quote stock ID 12513) ISBN: 9780691024868

Why would one country impose economic sanctions against another in pursuit of foreign policy objectives? How effective is the use of such economic weapons? This book examines how and why the United States and its allies instituted economic sanctions against the People?s Republic of China in the 1950s, and how the embargo affected Chinese domestic policy and the Sino-Soviet alliance. (For this item please quote stock ID 21351) ISBN: 9780804739306

In their 3000 years of interaction, China and Vietnam have been through a full range of relationships. Throughout all these fluctuations the one constant has been that China is always the larger power, and Vietnam the smaller. Yet China has rarely been able to dominate Vietnam, and the relationship is shaped by its asymmetry. The Sino-Vietnamese relationship provides the perfect ground for developing and exploring the effects of asymmetry on international relations. Womack develops his theory in conjunction with an original analysis of the interaction between China and Vietnam from the Bronze Age to the present. (For this item please quote stock ID 25348) ISBN: 9780521618342

Fifty years after the Korean conflict, what is a forgotten war for some Americans is an aching memory for China. With over a million casualties out of the three million soldiers sent into battle, that war looms as large for the People's Republic of China (PRC)--barely a year old when North Korea invaded the South--as World War II does for most other countries. It was the first international war fought by the Chinese Communist regime to halt counterrevolution; it was also a war that the Chinese fully expected to win, by virtue of not only superiority of numbers but also their soldiers' superior 'political quality.' This book presents a mosaic of memoirs by key Chinese military commanders from that war, drawing not only on their personal papers but also on still-classified archives and on Chinese-language sources unavailable in English. It offers an uncensored, behind-the-scenes story of the Communist campaign, from the decision to intervene through the truce negotiations, that discloses new information on such facets of the war as strategy and tactics, use of propaganda, and mobilization of the Chinese population. It also reveals the generals' concerns about the possible use of nuclear force and the alleged use of biological and chemical weapons by the United States. The book contains a wealth of new materials on the Chinese intervention, including combat operations, logistics, political control, field command, and communications. Among those whose recollections are recorded, then­acting Chief of Staff Nie Rongzhen reveals how party leadership decided on intervention, Commander in Chief Peng Dehuai provides personal accounts of major battles and communications with Mao, and General Yang Dezhi shares secrets of Chinese military strategy and tactics, discussing how the army orchestrated each battle to contend with the better equipped UN forces. The volume also features an updated short history of the PRC's conduct of the war based on Chinese sources, plus rare photos from Chinese archives that put readers behind the lines from the Chinese side. 'Mao's Generals Remember Korea' demonstrates that the PRC continues to draw military, diplomatic, and strategic lessons from the war it fought fifty years ago with the world's most powerful military force. It offers valuable insight into the Chinese way of war and the military mind of Mao that will be a rich resource for Asian and military scholars. 'A fascinating volume offering insights into what remains one of the most emotional and still controversial issues in modern Chinese history - the Chinese experience in the Korean War. Until now the recollections of China's top military personnel, among them the most colourful and powerful in the Chinese Communist leadership, have been inaccessible to most Americans. This volume helps us now to begin reconstructing the views of the 'other side' in the not so Cold War.' - Gordon Chang, author of 'Friends and Enemies: The United States, China, and the Soviet Union, 1948­1972' 'Essential reading for military and diplomatic historians as well as students of Chinese politics.' - William Stueck, Jr., author of 'The Korean War' 'Provides valuable insight into Chinese perspectives on the Korean War truce negotiations.' - Warren Cohen, author of 'America's Response to China' (For this item please quote stock ID 15474) ISBN: 9780700610952

At the end of the 20th Century, the focus of global attention and concern was on the future relationship between the world's most influential nation and its most populous one. The series of high-level meetings and the exchange of unusually long summit visits that occupied the center of the world stage in the late 1990s reveal that both sides recognize the other's global importance. In the words of President Bill Clinton, ?the role China chooses to play will powerfully shape the next century.? The years 1997 and 1998 will be remembered by many for the critically acclaimed summit visits of Jiang Zemin to the United States and Bill Clinton to China. The Outlook for U.S. -China Relations Following the 1997-1998 Summits: Chinese and American Perspectives on Security, Trade and Cultural Exchange moves beyond the Clinton-Jiang summits of 1997-1998 to explore long-term prospects in light of recent developments. Nineteen scholars from diverse disciplines, including eight from China mainland institutions, address the outlook for security relations in the Asia-Pacific Region; prospects for strategic partnership; issues concerning Taiwan, Tibet, and trade; the potential for information, technology, and educational exchanges; future competition for natural resources; changing images of each other; and other critical dimensions of expanding nonstate relationships. The interaction of China and the United States promises to constitute the world's most important bilateral relationship well into the 21st Century. To be constructive and enduring, relationships must be based on mutual understanding and respect. This volume provides an opportunity to advance both foundations among students, scholars, policy makers, and the attentive public in the East and the West. (For this item please quote stock ID 8921) ISBN: 9789622018815

As we are incessantly reminded of the opportunities that the new Chinese economic behemoth presents, this book suggests that dewy-eyed travellers, business people and politicians alike ought to remember the altogether too fantastic dreams of those that went before them. As the People's Republic of China continues to become the subject of intense political, cultural and economic interest, Ways of Seeing China offers a timely critique of the ways that Australians have seen China. Analysing little-known and sometimes bizarre historical narratives ? such as the early Australian caricatures of Sin Fat and Kum Kiy ? Kendall untangles the popular representations of invasion, captivity and travelogue that have shaped Australia?s relations with China. Kendall draws on a diverse range of materials including novels, government documents, ASIO dossiers, travelogues, public polls, politicians, pronouncements, and oral history to convincingly argue that we continually recycle six storytelling forms, all of which use ethnocentric and orientalist fears to enunciate various truths , or ways of seeing, cultural and political difference. The three cultural storytelling forms are the fear of invasion, captivity and adventure, and the three political forms are containment, engagement and multiculturalism. Timothy Kendall was born in Melbourne in 1970. He completed a PhD in the English Program at La Trobe University in 2002. Since that time he has taught literary and cultural studies at numerous universities in Melbourne. In 2006 he is moving to Canberra to take up a position within the Australian Public Service. He has two children and Ways of Seeing China is his first book. (For this item please quote stock ID 25594) ISBN: 9781920731830

Contents: Hold High the Great Banner of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics and Strive for New Victories in Building a Moderately Prosperous Society in All Respects Report to the Seventeenth National Congress Communist Party of China on October 15, 2007 Hu Jintao Resolution of the Seventeenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China on the Report of its Sixteenth Central Committee (Adopted at the Seventeenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China on October 21, 2007) Constitution of the Communist Party of China (Amended and adopted at the Seventeenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China on October 21, 2007) Resolution of the Seventeenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China on the Amended Constitution of the Communist Party of China (Adopted at the Seventeenth National Congress Communist Party of China on October 21, 2007) Further Improve the Party's Style of Work, Uphold Integrity and Combat Corruption through Sticking to Prevention and Punishment with Emphasis on Prevention Report on the Work of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection to the Seventeenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China (Adopted at the Seventeenth National Congress of Communist Party of China on October 21, 2007) Resolution of the Seventeenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China on the Report on the Work of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (Adopted at the Seventeenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China on October 21, 2007) The List of Members of the Seventeenth CPC Central Committee (204) The List of the Alternate Members of the Seventeenth CPC Central Committee (167) The List of Members of the Seventeenth CPC Central Commission for Commission for Discipline Inspection (127) Communiqué of the First Plenary Session of the Seventeenth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (Adopted at the First Plenary Session of the Seventeenth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on October 22, 2007) Profiles of the Members of the Leading Organs of the Seventeenth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (For this item please quote stock ID 28734) ISBN: 9787119051406

What explains the twists and turns in U.S.-China relations since Richard Nixon initiated a policy of engagement in the early 1970s? Addressing this question, Jean Garrison examines the politics behind U.S. China policy across six administrations - from Nixon to George W. Bush. Garrison finds that a focus on the internal decisionmaking process is key to understanding both continuity and change in more than three decades of U.S.-China relations. Incorporating interactions at the levels of strategic context, presidential beliefs and leadership style, and bureaucratic politics, Garrison constructs a comprehensive explanation of how China policy was formed in each administration. Her thorough - and engaging - account sheds new light on U.S. foreign policy making in general, as well as on Washington's China policy. (For this item please quote stock ID 25541) ISBN: 9781588263858

Paradoxically, Japan provides massive amounts of development aid to China, despite Japan's clear perception of China as a prime competitor in the Asia-Pacific region This book provides an overview of the way Japan's aid to China has developed since 1979. It explains the shifts that have taken place in Japan's China policy in the 1990s against the background of international changes and domestic changes in both countries, and offers new insights into the way Japanese aid policy-making functions, thereby providing an alternative view of Japanese policy making that might be applied to other areas. Through a series of case studies, it shows Japan's increasing willingness to use development aid to China for strategic goals and explains a significant shift of priority project areas of Japan's China aid in the 1990s, from industrial infrastructure to socio-environmental infrastructure. The book argues that, contrary to the widely held view that Japan's aid to China is given for reasons of commercial self-interest, the objectives are much more complex and dynamic. It shows especially how policymaking power within the Japanese government has shifted in recent years away from officials in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to politicians in the Liberal Democratic Party. (For this item please quote stock ID 25590) ISBN: 9780415352031

China Watching analyzes the state of European, Japanese and American scholarship on China over the last decade. The international team of contributors explore the main subjects and trends in research being done on contemporary Chinese politics, economy, foreign affairs and security studies. They contrast the substance and conclusions of this research in Europe, Japan, and the United States, contributing to topics that are hotly debated among China watchers worldwide. The book provides a unique insight into the world of China studies as well as China itself, and will appeal to those with an interest in Chinese politics, economics, foreign policy and security studies. (For this item please quote stock ID 28536) ISBN: 9780415413978

[Indent] The world in the last two decades of the twentieth century fundamentally and radically changed at a speed and on a scale never before witnessed. The challenge posed at the beginning of the third millennium is enormous for governments and people the world over. Globalisation, along with globalism, continues its unrelenting and accelerating march as it draws more countries, cities, and people closer into interdependent relationships. Globalization & Networked Societies attempts to tease out some of the salient elements of this process, especially as it has affected urban centers in Pacific Asia over the past twenty years. Globalisation and rapid economic growth have transformed the region and its cities on varied spatial scales, bringing new opportunities and challenges for governments, the private sector, and individuals. All countries in Pacific Asia are covered in this work, with special attention given to Hong Kong and to China, a late bloomer in the Asia scene but nevertheless one that has experienced phenomenal growth and accelerated globalisation in recent decades. The empirical analyses reveal the outcome, dilemmas, and meanings of globalisation in the urban-regional scene. Yue-man Yeung is professor of geography, director of the Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, and head of Shaw College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. 'The overview chapters would fit well in any course on developing world urbanisation or a regional examination of Pacific Asia, while those following are well worth incorporating into any course touching on the subjects covered.' - Urban Geography, Spring 2001 (For this item please quote stock ID 18106) ISBN: 9780824823269