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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.

Journal Articles

Chang, Parris H. “U.S.-China Relations: From Hostility to Euphoria to Realism.” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 476, no. 1 (1984): 156–70. doi:10.1177/0002716284476001012.

Clough, Ralph N. “United States China Policy.” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 321, no. 1 (1959): 20–28. doi:10.1177/000271625932100104.

Feis, Herbert. “The United States and China.” Daedalus (Cambridge, Mass.) 91, no. 4 (1962): 783–99.

Goldstein, Joshua S, and John R Freeman. “U.S.-Soviet-Chinese Relations: Routine, Reciprocity, or Rational Expectations?The American Political Science Review 85, no. 1 (1991): 17–35. doi:10.2307/1962876.

Harper, John L. “Nixon in China, February 1972: Revisiting the ‘Week That Changed the World.’” Survival (London) 64, no. 2 (2022): 45–51. doi:10.1080/00396338.2022.2055822.

Kau, Michael Y M. “Public Opinion and Our China Policy [on Relations with Both Communist China and Taiwan].” Asian Affairs (London) 5 (1978): 133–47.

Kim, Donggil, and Seong-hyon Lee. “Historical Perspective on China’s ‘Tipping Point’ with North Korea.” Asian Perspective 42, no. 1 (2018): 33–60. doi:10.1353/apr.2018.0001.

Lampton, David M. “China Policy: Interests and Process.” World Affairs (Washington) 149 (1987): 139–42.

Lin, Mao. “China and the Escalation of the Vietnam War: The First Years of the Johnson Administration.” Journal of Cold War Studies 11, no. 2 (2009): 35–69. doi:10.1162/jcws.2009.11.2.35.

Lin, Mao. “More Than a Tacit Alliance: Trade, Soft Power, and u.s.-Chinese Rapprochement Reconsidered.” The Journal of American-East Asian Relations 24, no. 1 (2017): 41–77. doi:10.1163/18765610-02401004.

Liu, Yi-hung. “The World Comes to Iowa in the Cold War: International Writing Program and the Translation of Mao Zedong.” American Quarterly 69, no. 3 (2017): 611–31. doi:10.1353/aq.2017.0053.

Lukin, Vladimir. “Relations between the U.S. and China in the 1980s.” Asian Survey 24, no. 11 (1984): 1151–56. doi:10.1525/as.1984.24.11.01p0211g.

Pye, Lucian W. “China and the United States: A New Phase.” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 402, no. 1 (1972): 97–106. doi:10.1177/000271627240200108.

Ross, Robert S. “International Bargaining and Domestic Politics: U.S.-China Relations since 1972.” World Politics 38, no. 2 (1986): 255–87. doi:10.2307/2010238.

Sheng, Michael M. “Mao and China’s Relations with the Superpowers in the 1950s: A New Look at the Taiwan Strait Crises and the Sino-Soviet Split.” Modern China 34, no. 4 (2008): 477–507. doi:10.1177/0097700408315991.

Sheng, Michael. “Mao’s Role in the Korean Conflict: A Revision.” Twentieth-Century China 39, no. 3 (2014): 269–90. doi:10.1353/tcc.2014.0022.

Thomson, James C. “On the Making of U.S. China Policy, 1961–9: A Study in Bureaucratic Politics.” The China Quarterly (London) 50, no. 50 (1972): 220–43. doi:10.1017/S0305741000050293.

Wolfowitz, Paul D. “Interview: Paul D. Wolfowitz: U.S.-China Relations.” Journal of International Affairs (New York) 39, no. 2 (1986): 33–39.

Xia, Yafeng. “China’s Elite Politics and Sino-American Rapprochement, January 1969–February 1972.” Journal of Cold War Studies 8, no. 4 (2006): 3–28. doi:10.1162/jcws.2006.8.4.3.

Xu, Han. “China's Economic Reform and Sino-U.S. Relations.” Journal of International Affairs (New York) 39, no. 2 (1986): 27–31.

Yang, Kuisong, and Yafeng Xia. “Vacillating between Revolution and Détente: Mao’s Changing Psyche and Policy toward the United States, 1969–1976.” Diplomatic History 34, no. 2 (2010): 395–423. doi:10.1111/j.1467-7709.2009.00853.x.

Zhang, Yang. “Strategic Vigilance: Mao’s ‘Anti-Peaceful Evolution’ Strategy and China’s Policy toward the United States, 1959–1976.” Journal of Cold War Studies 25, no. 2 (2023): 93–111. doi:10.1162/jcws_a_01143.