People's diplomacy : how Americans and Chinese transformed US-China relations during the Cold War / Kazushi Minami

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.

"People's Diplomacy analyzes the reconstruction of United States-China relations during the Cold War from the perspective of Americans and Chinese who promoted people-to-people exchanges in the 1970s"--.

Medienart:

Buch

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

Ithaca: Cornell University Press ; 2024

Reihe:

The United States in the world

Sprache:

Englisch

Weiterer Titel:

How Americans and Chinese transformed US-China relations during the Cold War

Beteiligte Personen:

Minami, Kazushi, 1988- [VerfasserIn]

Links:

Cover [lizenzpflichtig]

ISBN:

978-1-5017-7414-0

978-1-5017-7415-7

Themen:

20. Jahrhundert (1900 bis 1999 n. Chr.)
20th century
20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000
Amerikanische Geschichte
Asian history
Asiatische Geschichte
China
Cold War
Cultural diplomacy
Diplomacy
Diplomatie
Exchange of persons programs, American
Exchange of persons programs, Chinese
HISTORY / Asia / China
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
History of the Americas
POL054000
POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy
Politics and culture
USA
United States
Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA

Anmerkungen:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Umfang:

pages cm

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

185938160X