China's quest
Subtitle: the history of the foreign relations of the People's Republic of China
By: John W. Garver
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 868
ISBN-13: 9780190261054
Subjects: Politics and government; Foreign relations
Description: 'China's Quest', the result of over a decade of research, writing, and analysis, is both sweeping in breadth and encyclopedic in detail.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : The Embrace of Communism and Its Consequence; title: Joining the Socialist Camp, 1949-1950; title: War in Korea and Indochina, 1950-1953; title: The Bandung Era; title: The Sino-Soviet Schism: the race to communism and great power status, 1956-1958; title: Sino-Indian Conflict and the Sino-Soviet Alliance; title: Reviving Revolutionary Momentum, 1962-1965; title: Revolutionary China's Quest to Transform Southeast Asia; title: Countering the US in Vietnam : Proxy War with the United States; title: The Cultural Revolution; title: Rapprochement with the United States, 1970-1972; title: Countering Soviet Encirclement and Trying to Preserve Mao's Legacy; title: Opening to the Outside World; title: China's Pedagogic War with Vietnam; title: The Strategic Triangle and the Four Modernizations; title: Rapprochement with Asian Powers: Soviet Union, India, Iran and Japan; title: The CCP's Near Escape and Its Aftermath; title: The Diplomacy of Damage Control; title: 19. The Crisis Deepens: Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe and the USSR; title: Constraining Unipolarity in a Unbalanced International System; title: China and American Hegemony in the Persian Gulf; title: The Recovery of Hong Kong; title: Military Confrontation with the United States over Taiwan; title: China's Long Debate over Policy toward the United States; title: China's Emergence as a Global Economic and Military Power; title: Reassuring and Unnerving the Neighbors : Japan; title: Reassuring and Unnerving the Neighbors : India; title: China's Quest for Modernity and the Tides of World History.