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America's Response to China
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America's Response to China

A History of Sino-American Relations

Columbia UP, 2000 más...

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Editorial Rating

8

Qualities

  • For Beginners
  • Eloquent

Recommendation

Foreign relations historian Warren I. Cohen does a masterly job of condensing more than 200 years of Sino-American history (up to the Clinton administration, so not including today’s complex fiscal ties) into a brief, readable book. For the most part, his approach is factual and reportorial – Cohen avoids grand sweeps of theory and interpretation. However, to the untrained eye, this book may seem quite confusing: Cohen uses the Wade-Giles system of romanizing Chinese characters, rather than the more familiar pinyin system, and his organization of historic material is only very roughly chronological. Readers will nonetheless acquire a strong sense of the important themes, the major evolutionary stages and the prominent figures involved in the development of Sino-U.S. relations. getAbstract recommends this retrospective account to anyone with a professional, non-academic interest in the history of America’s relationship with China.

Take-Aways

  • U.S. demand for Chinese goods led to the development of a bilateral trading relationship in the mid-18th century.
  • Initially, China dictated trade relations, and the U.S. and Britain complied.
  • After the Opium Wars devastated China’s society, Britain and the U.S. seized control of its economy. The West subjected a weakened China to a number of unfair treaties.

About the Author

Warren I. Cohen is an historian of America’s foreign relations. He specializes in U.S. relations with East Asia.


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