Introduction to “The United States and China

In the last twenty years, the study of Sino-American relations during the Cold War has made major strides with the declassification of Chinese, American, and Japanese archives. However, uneven development is salient in this field. The first three articles that follow were originally presented at the fortieth annual meeting of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations in Chantilly, Virginia, in the summer of 2007. Based on newly available multi-archival sources, part II of this volume examines several neglected aspects of the relationship, including China's elite politics and its impact on U.S.-China relations from 1972 to 1976, Japan's reactions to U.S.-China rapprochement, China's Japan policy and its impact on the U.S.-China normalization, and U.S. response to Chinese Nationalist Mainland recovery efforts from 1961 to 1963

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