America's Response to China: A History of Sino-American Relations - Softcover

Cohen, Warren I.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0231191995 ISBN 13: 9780231191999

Publisher: Columbia University Press, 2019

Synopsis

America's Response to China has long been the standard resource for a succinct, historically grounded assessment of an increasingly complicated relationship. Written by one of America's leading diplomatic historians, this book analyzes the concerns and conceptions that have shaped U.S.-China policy and examines their far-reaching outcomes. Warren I. Cohen begins with the mercantile interests of the newly independent American colonies and discusses subsequent events up to 2018. For this sixth edition, Cohen adds an analysis of the policies of Barack Obama and extends his discussion of the Chinese-American relationship in the age of potential Chinese ascendance and the shrinking global influence of the United States, including the complications of the presidency of Donald Trump. Trenchant and insightful, America's Response to China is critically important for understanding U.S.-China relations in the twenty-first century.

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Review:

Cohen . . . [is] the leading historian of Sino-American relations of his generation. This book has much to offer both newcomers to its subject as well as those who have been studying relations between these two countries nearly as long as its author.--American Diplomacy

A fresh new look at the history of United States diplomacy toward China . . . The subject will never be the same again.--John King Fairbank "American Political Science Review "

Careful, well-documented.--Political Science Quarterly

Lucid and concise . . . a model of its kind, thoughtful, even-tempered, and extremely well-written.--Pacific Historical Review

Provocative and perceptive.--China Quarterly

A venerable work.--Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom "The Daily Beast "

About the Author:

Warren I. Cohen is Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. His Columbia University Press books include A Nation Like All Others: A Brief History of American Foreign Relations (2018) and East Asia at the Center: Four Thousand Years of Engagement with the World (2000).

About this edition

• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0231191995
• ISBN 13: 9780231191999
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 360