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

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

Hardcover

Series: United States in the World

20th Century United States HistoryChinese HistoryInternational Relations

ISBN10: 150177414X
ISBN13: 9781501774140
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: Mar 15 2024
Pages: 270
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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.

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