Engaging China - Anne Thurston

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Résumé :
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 include academics, leaders of China-related nongovernmental organizations, and former diplomats and government officials.

Biographie:
Anne 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 Enemies of the People: The Ordeal of the Intellectuals in Chin?s Great Cultural Revolution (1987); A Chinese Odyssey: The Life and Times of a Chinese Dissident (1991); Li Zhisui?s The Private Life of Chairman Mao (1994), and, with Gyalo Thondup, The Noodle Maker of Kalimpong: The Untold Story of My Struggle for Tibet (2015).

Sommaire:
Part I: The Making and Unmaking of the U.S.-China Relationship
1. Engaging China: Fifty Years of Sino-American Relations, by Anne F. Thurston
2. The Logic and Efficacy of Engagement: Objectives, Assumptions, and Impacts, by Thomas Fingar
3. Mismanaging Chin?s Rise: The South China Sea Dispute and the Transformation of Sino-American Relations from Strategic Partners to Strategic Rivals, by John W. Garver
Part II: Thinking About How We Think About China
4. A Half-Century of Engagement: The Study of China and the Role of the China Scholar Community, by Andrew Mertha
5. The American Dream and the China Dream: Unpeaceful Evolutions, by Richard Madsen
6. U.S.-China Retrospective: Forty Years of Commercial Relations, by Craig Allen
7. A Perspective on Chinese Economics: What Have We Learned? What Did We Fail to Anticipate?, by Barry Naughton
Part III: On the Ground, Nongovernmental, People-to-People Cooperation
8. Strategic Adaptation: American Foundations, Religious Organizations, and NGOs in China, by Mary Brown Bullock
9. U.S.-China Relations: A Public Health Perspective, by Yanzhong Huang
10. Thinkers. Builders. Symbols. Spies? China-U.S. Educational Relations in the Engagement Era, by Robert Daly
Part IV: Fault Lines, Threats to Peace, and Reflections on the Future
11. U.S.-China Military Relations: From Enmity to Entente and Maybe Back Again, by Chas W. Freeman Jr.
12. Chin?s Periphery: A Rift Zone in U.S.-China Relations, by Carla P. Freeman
13. Forty-Plus Years of U.S.-China Diplomacy: Realities and Recommendations, by Kenneth Lieberthal and Susan Thornton
14. Engagement with China: A Eulogy and Reflections on a Gathering Storm ,, by David M. Lampton
Afterword
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Index