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WWII & Making of Modern Asia/Pacific: China

For HIST 296, Fall 2024. It contains library materials related to Sino-U.S. relations during cold war, propaganda posters in China, China's economic reforms between late 1970s to early 1980s.

eBooks

Ali, S. Mahmud. US-China Cold War Collaboration, 1971-1989. London ; Routledge, 2005. (Also available in print: Asia ; E183.8.C6 A44 2005)

Chen, Kuan-jen. Charting America’s Cold War Waters in East Asia : Sovereignty, Local Interests, and International Security. First edition. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Cliff, Roger, and David A Shlapak. U.S.-China Relations After Resolution of Taiwan’s Status. 1st ed. Santa Monica: RAND Corporation, 2007. doi:10.7249/MG567AF. (Also available in print: Main; UA853.T28 C55 2007)

deLisle, Jacques, and Avery Goldstein. After Engagement: Dilemmas in U.S.-China Security Relations. Brookings Institution Press, 2021. (Also available in print:  Main ; E183.8.C6 A38 2021)

Goldstein, Lyle. Meeting China Halfway : How to Defuse the Emerging US-China Rivalry. Washington, District of Columbia: Georgetown University Press, 2015.

Hartnett, Stephen J. A World of Turmoil: The United States, China, and Taiwan in the Long Cold War. 1st ed. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2021. doi:10.14321/j.ctv1h9dm44.

Jiang, Changbin, and Robert S. Ross, eds. Re-Examining the Cold War: U.S.-China Diplomacy, 1954-1973. Boston: Harvard University Asia Center, 2001.

Keith, Ronald C. Deng Xiaoping and China’s Foreign Policy. First edition. Boca Raton, FL: Routledge, 2017.

Kazushi MinamiPeople’s Diplomacy: How Americans and Chinese Transformed US-China Relations During the Cold War. Lightning Source Inc. Tier 3, 2024.

Li, Hongshan. Fighting on the Cultural Front: U.S.-China Relations in the Cold War. 1st ed. New York: Columbia University Press, 2024.

Lumbers, Michael. Piercing the Bamboo Curtain : Tentative Bridge-Building to China during the Johnson Years. 1st ed. Manchester, U.K. ; Manchester University Press, 2008. doi:10.7765/9781847791498.

Madan, Tanvi. Fateful Triangle: How China Shaped U.S.-India Relations During the Cold War. Brookings Institution Press, 2020. doi:10.7864/j.ctvbnm404. (Also available in print: Main ; E183.8.I4 M235 2020)

O’hanlon, Michael E., and James Steinberg. A Glass Half Full?: Rebalance, Reassurance, and Resolve in the U.S.-China Strategic Relationship. Brookings Institution Press, 2017.

Oyen, Meredith. The Diplomacy of Migration : Transnational Lives and the Making of U.S.-Chinese Relations in the Cold War. Ithaca, New York ; Cornell University Press, 2015. doi:10.7591/9781501701474.

Pierri, Bruno. Britain, the US and China’s Anti-Soviet Stance in the Cold War : Containment and Trade, 1977-1980. Abingdon, England: Routledge, 2024.

Qing, Simei. From Allies to Enemies: Visions of Modernity, Identity, and U.S.–China Diplomacy, 1945–1960. Harvard University Press, 2007. doi:10.2307/j.ctv322v4pb.

Sutter, Robert G. US-China Relations : Perilous Past, Uncertain Future. Fourth edition. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2022.

Xia, Yafeng. Negotiating with the Enemy: U.S.-China Talks during the Cold War, 1949-1972. 1st ed. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. (Also available in print: Asia ; E183.8.C5 X53 2006)

Print editions

Ali, S. Mahmud. US-China Cold War Collaboration, 1971-1989. London ; Routledge, 2005. Asia ; E183.8.C6 A44 2005

Chen, Jian. Mao’s China and the Cold War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.  Asia ; DS777.8 .C4314 2001

Griffith, William E. Peking, Moscow, and beyond: The Sino-Soviet-American Triangle. Washington: Center for Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown University, 1973. Asia ; E183.8.C5 G74

Hasegawa, Tsuyoshi. The Cold War in East Asia, 1945-1991. Washington, D.C: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2011. Asia ; DS518.1 .C588 2011

Odgaard, Liselotte. The Balance of Power in Asia-Pacific Security: US-China Policies on Regional Order. London ; Routledge, 2007.  Asia ; JZ1313 .O34 200]

Sutter, Robert G. U.S.-Chinese Relations : Perilous Past, Pragmatic Present. Second edition. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2013. Asia ; E183.8.C5 S884 2013 [*4th edition is available in ebook format]

Xia, Yafeng. Negotiating with the Enemy : U.S.-China Talks during the Cold War, 1949-1972. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. Asia ; E183.8.C5 X53 2006