Michael Schaller Ordre des livres (chronologique)

Torn between Japanese aggression and a bloody civil war, China presented a complex challenge to American policymakers from 1938 until the end of World War II. This account explores the Americans who traveled to China, both openly and covertly, and their influence on the U.S. decision to reject Chinese Communist overtures and support Chiang Kai-shek's regime. Michael Schaller illustrates how the surge of U.S. interest in Chinese politics led to a situation few Americans grasped. The mission, initially aimed at bolstering Chiang's Kuomintang against Japan, evolved into a web of conflicting personalities and unclear motivations. Schaller critiques the diplomatic approaches of Presidents Roosevelt and Truman, who misjudged the rapid power shifts in China, viewing the civil war as a struggle between Soviet-inspired revolution and nationalism, despite Mao Tse-tung's rising influence and Chiang's regime's corruption. American officials, including General Joseph Stilwell, sought to maintain U.S. influence by forming alliances with various factions. The narrative also details American covert operations in wartime China, including plans for air attacks on Japan and attempts to assassinate Chiang. Schaller reveals how these covert strategies distorted the competition among Chinese factions for U.S. support, ultimately leading to increased backing for Chiang and entrenching the U.S. in a prolonged struggle for control in Asia.

From the Opium Wars of the 1840s, to the Red Scare of the 1940s, through the Tiananmen "massacre" of 1989, and the Wen Ho Lee "espionage case" of 2000, Chinese-American relations have swung like a pendulum throughout the years. I The United States and China: Into the Twenty-First Century--now in its third edition and thoroughly revised and updated--looks at over a century of Chinese-American turmoil from a dual perspective, examining how two dramatically different cultures interacted and collided. Based on research by the author as well as by scholars in both countries, it examines the periodic cooperation and hostility between both governments and people in the United States and China. The book places special emphasis on understanding China's unique role in the Cold War and its centrality to the American obsession with the Vietnam War. It explains the interactions between domestic policies in China and the United States and their international behavior. The discussion of the post-World War II period, which constitutes a major portion of this textbook, has been completely revised to incorporate a vast new body of primary materials and research monographs written by Chinese and American scholars since 1990. Two entirely new chapters analyze Chinese-American relations during the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton administrations and examine the paradox of how, despite increasingly close social, political, and economic cooperation, fear of China has again become part of the American political debate.

From the Opium Wars of the 1840s, to the Red Scare of the 1940s, through the Tiananmen Square "massacre" of 1989, and the Wen Ho Lee "espionage case" of 2000, Chinese-American relations have swung like a pendulum throughout the years. Now in its fourth edition and thoroughly revised and updated, The United States and China: Into the Twenty-First Century looks at more than a century of Chinese-American turmoil from a dual perspective, examining how two dramatically different cultures interacted, cooperated, and collided.