People's Diplomacy

How Americans and Chinese Transformed US-China Relations During the Cold War

Kazushi Minami (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

270 Seiten

2024
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-7414-0 (ISBN)

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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.

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

Introduction
1. The Origins of People's Diplomacy
2. Trade: A New Open Door
3. Science: A Miracle Drug
4. Education: To "Change China"
5. Tourism: The New Marco Polo
6. Sport: Friendship and Competition
7. Art: From Mao to Beethoven
Epilogue

Erscheinungsdatum	02.02.2024
Reihe/Serie	The United States in the World
Zusatzinfo	20 b&w halftones - 20 Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort	Ithaca
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	907 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-5017-7414-X / 150177414X
ISBN-13	978-1-5017-7414-0 / 9781501774140
Zustand	Neuware