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100			_aKirby, William C. (ed.)
245		0	_aNormalization of U.S. - China relations: an international history
260			_aLondon
260			_bHarvard University Press
260			_c2005
300			_a376 p.
365			_b 49.50
365			_dRS
520			_aRelations between China and the United States have been of central importance to both countries over the past half-century, as well as to all states affected by that relationship--Taiwan and the Soviet Union foremost among them. Only recently, however, has the opening of archives made it possible to research this history dispassionately. The eight chapters in this volume offer the first multinational, multi-archival review of the history of Chinese-American conflict and cooperation in the 1970s. On the Chinese side, normalization of relations was instrumental to Beijing's effort to enhance its security vis-à-vis the Soviet Union and was seen as a tactical necessity to promote Chinese military and economic interests. The United States was equally motivated by national security concerns. In the wake of Vietnam, policymakers saw normalization as a means of forestalling Soviet power. As the essays in this volume show, normalization was far from a foregone conclusion.
650			_aUnited States - Foreign relation - China
700			_aRoss, Robert S. (ed.)
700			_aLi, Gong (ed.)
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