Title: China's quest : the history of the foreign relations of the People's Republic of China /
Authors: Garver, John W.,
Year: 2016
Subjects: China Foreign relations; China Politics and government
Abstract: 'China's Quest', the result of over a decade of research, writing, and analysis, is both sweeping in breadth and encyclopedic in detail.
Contents: Forging a revolutionary state. Joining the Socialist Camp -- War in Korea and Indochina -- The Bandung era -- The Sino-Soviet schism : the race to Communism and great power status -- Sino-Indian conflict and the Sino-Soviet alliance -- Reviving revolutionary momentum, 1962-1965 -- Revolutionary China's quest to transform Southeast Asia -- Countering the United States in Vietnam : proxy war with the United States -- The Cultural Revolution, 1966-1969 -- Rapprochement with the United States -- Countering Soviet encirclement and trying to preserve Mao's legacy -- The happy interregnum, 1978-1989. Opening in the outside world -- China's pedagogic war with Vietnam -- The strategic triangle and the four modernizations -- Normalization with the Asian powers : Soviet Union, India, Iran, and Japan -- The Leninist state besieged : Socialism in one country. 1989 : the CCP's near escape and its aftermath -- The diplomacy of damage control -- The crisis deepens : collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe and the USSR -- Constraining unipolarity in an unbalanced international system -- China and America in the Persian Gulf -- The recovery of Hong Kong -- Military confrontation with the United States -- China's long debate over response to the US challenge -- China's emergence as a global economic power -- Reasuring and unnerving the neighbors : Japan -- Reasuring and unnerving the neighbors : India -- China's quest for modernity and the tides of world history.