{"product_id":"engaging-china-fifty-years-of-sino-american-relations-9780231201292","title":"Engaging China: Fifty Years of Sino-American Relations","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe importance of the relationship between the United States and the People's Republic of China has only grown since Richard Nixon's epochal visit in 1972. By the early twenty-first century, when the rise of China had become an inescapable fact, most American policy makers and experts saw bilateral ties with China as the most consequential foreign-relations priority for the United States. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn recent years, even before the coronavirus pandemic, the U.S.-China relationship has rapidly deteriorated--and the whole world has felt the consequences. This book brings together leading China specialists to offer a retrospective on relations between the United States and China over the last half-century and consider what might be next. The contributors--including academics, leaders of China-related nongovernmental organizations, and former diplomats and government officials--analyze the relationship from a range of perspectives: political, diplomatic, economic, social, cultural, commercial, educational, medical, and military. They reassess American engagement with China from the late Mao years onward, covering leaders from Deng Xiaoping through Xi Jinping. The contributors highlight not only the accomplishments and hard-won successes of engagement but also the mistakes and misunderstandings, acknowledging the well-earned distrust and genuine frictions that plague the relationship today. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMultidisciplinary and comprehensive, \u003ci\u003eEngaging China\u003c\/i\u003e is a vital reconsideration for a time when the stakes of U.S. policy toward China have never been higher.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnne F. Thurston is the former director of the Grassroots China Initiative and senior research professor at the Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies. She has written or edited many books about China, including \u003ci\u003eEnemies of the People: The Ordeal of the Intellectuals in China's Great Cultural Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e (1987); \u003ci\u003eA Chinese Odyssey: The Life and Times of a Chinese Dissident\u003c\/i\u003e (1991); Li Zhisui's \u003ci\u003eThe Private Life of Chairman Mao\u003c\/i\u003e (1994), and, with Gyalo Thondup, \u003ci\u003eThe Noodle Maker of Kalimpong: The Untold Story of My Struggle for Tibet\u003c\/i\u003e (2015).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50914346303762,"sku":"9780231201292","price":38.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e8b94e50-f422-4786-b4d5-07fbaaea0136.jpg?v=1738813406","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/engaging-china-fifty-years-of-sino-american-relations-9780231201292","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}