About face
Subtitle: a history of America's curious relationship with China from Nixon to Clinton
By: James Mann.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Alfred Knopf; Distributed by Random House
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 433
Subjects: United States -- Foreign relations -- China; China -- Foreign relations -- United States; United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989; United States -- Foreign relations -- 1989-
Description: This is the inside story of the people, forces, politics and diplomacy that have shaped contemporary relations between the United States and China. James Mann, the Beijing bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times from 1984 to 1987, draws on hundreds of newly uncovered government documents, scores of interviews and his own experiences in writing this investigative history.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 379-413) and index.