The Practice of Power
Subtitle: US Relations with China since 1949
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: May 15, 1997
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780198292920
First sentence: In 1972, Richard Nixon became the first American President to go to Beijing to meet the leaders of a state once overwhelmingly reviled in his home country and still espousing an ideology antithetical to his own.