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Constructing the U.S. Rapprochement with China, 1961–1974

From 'Red Menace' to 'Tacit Ally'

Evelyn Goh author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:9th Apr '09

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This book is about US policy towards China from 1961 to 1974.

With Nixon's historic reconciliation with China in 1972, Sino-American relations were restored, and China moved from being regarded as America's most implacable enemy to a friend and tacit ally. Existing accounts of the rapprochement focus on the shifting balance of power between the USA, China and the Soviet Union, but in this book Goh argues that they cannot adequately explain the timing and policy choices related to Washington's decisions for reconciliation with Beijing. Instead, she applies a more historically sensitive approach that privileges contending official American constructions of China's identity and character. This book demonstrates that ideas of reconciliation with China were already being propagated and debated within official circles in the USA during the 1960s. It traces the related policy discourse and imagery, and examines their continuities and evolution into the early 1970s that facilitated Nixon's new policy.

'This book provides a novel account of US-China rapprochement in the 1960s and 1970s … Constructivists and students of American foreign policy will find much that is stimulating here.' Yuen Foong Khong, University of Oxford
'Constructing the U.S. Rapprochement with China is a superb book. Evelyn Goh makes good use of recently available U.S. archival materials and Chinese sources to offer new insights into the U.S. policy making process during the Johnson and Nixon administrations … Both the specialist and the general reader will learn a great deal from this book." Robert Ross, Harvard University
'… there is much to admire in this book'. International Affairs

ISBN: 9780521108621

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm

Weight: 470g

316 pages