America's Response to China: A History of Sino-American Relations / Edition 5

by Warren I. Cohen

Overview

America's Response To China has long been the standard resource for a succinct, historically grounded assessment of an increasingly complicated relationship. Written by one of America's leading diplomatic historians, this book analyzes the concerns and conceptions that have shaped U.S.-China policy and examines their far-reaching outcomes. Warren I. Cohen begins with the mercantile interests of the newly independent American colonies and discusses subsequent events up to the Tiananmen Square massacre and the policies of George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton. For this fifth edition, Cohen adds a chapter on America in the age of potential Chinese ascendance, envisioning future partnerships and the shrinking global influence of the United States. Trenchant and insightful, America's Response to China is critically important for understanding U.S.-China relations in the twenty-first century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231150774
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	03/02/2010
Edition description:	fifth edition
Pages:	344
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Warren I. Cohen is Distinguished University Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Fifth Edition
Preface to the Fourth Edition
Preface to the Third Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Acknowledgments to the Fifth Edition
Romanization Table
Prologue: The Barbarians and the Tribute System
1. The Development of the Treaty System
2. The United States as a Power in East Asia
3. In the Light of the Rising Sun
4. The Response to Chinese Nationalism
5. China as an Abstraction—The Conflict with Japan
6. Communism in China
7. The Great Aberration
8. Rapprochement—At Last
9. In the Shadow of Tiananmen
10. America in the Age of Chinese Power
Notes
Bibliographical Essay
Index

Editorial Reviews

Lucid and concise... a model of its kind, thoughtful, even-tempered, and extremely well-written.

Pacific Historical Review

A venerable work.

— Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom

The Daily Beast

A fresh new look at the history of United States diplomacy towards China.... The subject will never be the same again.

— John King Fairbank

American Political Science Review

Warren Cohen... [is] the leading historian of Sino-American relations of his generation. This book has much to offer both newcomers to its subject as well as those who have been studying relations between these two countries nearly as long as its author.

American Diplomacy

A venerable work.

The Daily Beast - Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom

A fresh new look at the history of United States diplomacy towards China.... The subject will never be the same again.

American Political Science Review - John King Fairbank

Careful, well-documented.

Political Science Quarterly

Provocative and perceptive.

China Quarterly

A fresh new look at the history of United States diplomacy towards China....The subject will never be the same again.

John King Fairbank

Warren Cohen . . . [is] the leading historian of Sino-American relations of his generation. This book has much to offer both newcomers to its subject as well as those who have been studying relations between these two countries nearly as long as its author.

Steven I. Levine

The first edition was published in 1971, and the second about nine years later. Cohen (history dept. and Asians Studies Center, Michigan State U.) has revised and brought up to date this account of the evolution of Sino-American relations from purely commercial interests to complex geopolitical and ideological concerns. The bibliography is in the form of a guiding essay. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

A fresh new look at the history of United States diplomacy towards China.... The subject will never be the same again.

John King Fairbankn Political Science Review

Warren Cohen... [is] the leading historian of Sino-American relations of his generation. This book has much to offer both newcomers to its subject as well as those who have been studying relations between these two countries nearly as long as its author.

American Diplomacy - Steven I. Levine