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Book SynopsisThis book brings together leading China specialists to offer a retrospective on relations between the United States and China over the last half-century and consider what might be next. The contributors include academics, leaders of China-related nongovernmental organizations, and former diplomats and government officials.
Trade ReviewChina is confronting the United States with its biggest international challenge. If there is one book that can help readers understand China's transition, in American eyes, from a quasi-ally against the Soviet Union to the biggest threat to U.S. interests in the global arena, this is the one. -- J. Stapleton Roy, former U.S. ambassador to China
Immensely readable and rich with perspective and detail,
Engaging China reckons with the rise and fall of one of history’s most pivotal diplomatic strategies. From esteemed American scholars and practitioners who grappled with China in real time, this is a clear-eyed account of what happened—and a roadmap for what lies ahead. -- Evan Osnos, author of
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New ChinaThis wonderful volume, composed of contributions from an all-star lineup of talented and experienced China hands, reminds us of the richness of the past fifty years of engagement and the benefits accrued to both countries and their peoples. A must-read for all who want to understand the crucial importance of the U.S.-China nexus. -- Jan Berris, vice president of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations
Engaging China offers a nuanced understanding that there was no single framework, assumption, or motivation behind the increasing interdependence with China that developed after 1971. Moreover, the volume demonstrates that there was connectivity and thinking about relations well before 1971. It will be an essential text for students, a resource for policy makers, and a good read for the general public. -- Michael J. Green, author of
By More Than Providence: Grand Strategy and American Power in the Asia Pacific Since 1783Table of ContentsPart I: The Making and Unmaking of the U.S.-China Relationship1. Engaging China: Fifty Years of Sino-American Relations, by Anne F. Thurston
2. The Logic and Efficacy of Engagement: Objectives, Assumptions, and Impacts, by Thomas Fingar
3. Mismanaging China’s Rise: The South China Sea Dispute and the Transformation of Sino-American Relations from Strategic Partners to Strategic Rivals, by John W. Garver
Part II: Thinking About How We Think About China4. A Half-Century of Engagement: The Study of China and the Role of the China Scholar Community, by Andrew Mertha
5. The American Dream and the China Dream: Unpeaceful Evolutions, by Richard Madsen
6. U.S.-China Retrospective: Forty Years of Commercial Relations, by Craig Allen
7. A Perspective on Chinese Economics: What Have We Learned? What Did We Fail to Anticipate?, by Barry Naughton
Part III: On the Ground, Nongovernmental, People-to-People Cooperation8. Strategic Adaptation: American Foundations, Religious Organizations, and NGOs in China, by Mary Brown Bullock
9. U.S.-China Relations: A Public Health Perspective, by Yanzhong Huang
10. Thinkers. Builders. Symbols. Spies? China-U.S. Educational Relations in the Engagement Era, by Robert Daly
Part IV: Fault Lines, Threats to Peace, and Reflections on the Future11. U.S.-China Military Relations: From Enmity to Entente and Maybe Back Again, by Chas W. Freeman Jr.
12. China’s Periphery: A Rift Zone in U.S.-China Relations, by Carla P. Freeman
13. Forty-Plus Years of U.S.-China Diplomacy: Realities and Recommendations, by Kenneth Lieberthal and Susan Thornton
14. Engagement with China: A Eulogy and Reflections on a Gathering Storm ,, by David M. Lampton
Afterword
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Index
