People's Diplomacy: How Americans and Chinese Transformed US-China Relations during the Cold War

by Kazushi Minami

Overview

In People's Diplomacy, Kazushi Minami shows how the American and Chinese people rebuilt US-China relations in the 1970s, a pivotal decade bookended by Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to China and 1979 normalization of diplomatic relations. Top policymakers in Washington and Beijing drew the blueprint for the new bilateral relationship, but the work of building it was left to a host of Americans and Chinese from all walks of life, who engaged in "people-to-people" exchanges. After two decades of estrangement and hostility caused by the Cold War, these people dramatically changed the nature of US-China relations. Americans reimagined China as a country of opportunities, irresistible because of its prodigious potential, while Chinese reinterpreted the United States as an agent of modernization, capable of enriching their country and rejuvenating their lives. Drawing on extensive research at two dozen archives in the United States and China, People's Diplomacy redefines contemporary US-China relations as a creation of the American and Chinese people.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781501774171
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Publication date:	03/15/2024
Series:	The United States in the World
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	270
Sales rank:	82,617
File size:	31 MB
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Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Kazushi Minami is Associate Professor at the Osaka School of International Public Policy, Osaka University.