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Patterns in the Dust: Chinese-American Relations and the Recognition Controversy, 1949-1950
Nancy Bernkopf Tucker
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Description for Patterns in the Dust: Chinese-American Relations and the Recognition Controversy, 1949-1950
Hardback. Num Pages: 396 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KBB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 278 x 153 x 32. Weight in Grams: 771.
Chiang Kai-shek's Chinese Nationalist government collapsed in 1949 despite United States support for the regime during the anti-Communist civil war. American policymakers were then forced to choose between rescuing the Nationalists or coming to terms with China's Communist government. The Truman Administration, caught up in the calculations of cold war diplomacy, refused to make a rash decision. Secretary of State Dean Acheson likened the Nationalist collapse to a tree falling in the forest--the United States would have to wait for the dust settled before it could see ahead clearly. Patterns in the Dust is a fresh look at a ... Read more
Chiang Kai-shek's Chinese Nationalist government collapsed in 1949 despite United States support for the regime during the anti-Communist civil war. American policymakers were then forced to choose between rescuing the Nationalists or coming to terms with China's Communist government. The Truman Administration, caught up in the calculations of cold war diplomacy, refused to make a rash decision. Secretary of State Dean Acheson likened the Nationalist collapse to a tree falling in the forest--the United States would have to wait for the dust settled before it could see ahead clearly. Patterns in the Dust is a fresh look at a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1983
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
396
Condition
New
Number of Pages
396
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231053624
SKU
V9780231053624
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About Nancy Bernkopf Tucker
Nancy Bernkopf Tucker is professor of history at Georgetown University and the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and a senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. She is an American diplomatic historian specializing in American-East Asian relations, particularly relations with China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, and has written and edited several books, including Strait Talk: ... Read more
Reviews for Patterns in the Dust: Chinese-American Relations and the Recognition Controversy, 1949-1950
This is some piece of work. Nothing else like it on the subject. At a very early stage of her career [Nancy Bernkopf Tucker] may have the definitive book on the China-America watershed of 1949-1950.
Robert J. Donovan, Author of Conflict and Crisis: The Presidency of Harry S. Truman, 1945-1948 This is a first-rate and important study, particularly impressive ... Read more
Robert J. Donovan, Author of Conflict and Crisis: The Presidency of Harry S. Truman, 1945-1948 This is a first-rate and important study, particularly impressive ... Read more