CIAO DATE: 09/02

China Confidential: American Diplomats and Sino-American Relations, 1945-1996

Nancy Bernkopf Tucker

Columbia University Press

December 2000

 

Table of Contents

Front Matter and Acknowledgments (PDF, 12 pgs, 56 Kb)

Cast of Characters (PDF, 9 pgs, 52 Kb)

Abbreviations (PDF, 1 pgs, 20 Kb)

Introduction (PDF, 10 pgs, 48 Kb)

Chapter One: War Ends, War Begins (PDF, 68 pgs, 212 Kb)

Immediate Postwar Period
Marshall Mission
Civil War
China Lobby
Ward Incident
Chinese Communist Victory—Beijing and Nanjing
Chinese Communist Victory—Shanghai
Bombing by Nationalists
China White Paper
Attack on the Foreign Service
Sino-Soviet Relations
Departure
Developments in Taiwan
On the Eve of the Korean War

Chapter Two: 1950s (PDF, 76 pgs, 228 Kb)

Korea
U.S.-China Policy I
Negotiation with the PRC
Hong Kong
Developments in Taiwan I
Offshore Islands
Developments in Taiwan II
Taiwan Riot
Sino-Soviet Split
U.S.-China Policy II
Tibet

Chapter Three: 1960s (PDF, 64 pgs, 200 Kb)

U.S. Policy
Negotiation with the PRC I
Sino-Soviet Split
Taiwan I
1962 Taiwan Strait Crisis
Sino-Indian Border War
United Nations
Hong Kong I
Vietnam War I
Kennedy Assassination
Hilsman Speech 1963
Hong Kong II
Negotiation With the PRC II
Vietnam War II
Taiwan II
Chinese Activities in Indonesia and the Third World
Cultural Revolution

Chapter Four: Normalization (PDF, 62 pgs, 196 Kb)

Preliminary Indicators
Nixon, Kissinger, and Normalization
Taiwan
Negotiation with the PRC
United Nations
Nixon Trip to China

Chapter Five: 1970s (PDF, 70 pgs, 208 Kb)

Liaison Offices
Stalemate
Taiwan
Carter
Deng Xiaoping Visit
Taiwan Relations Act
Relations with the PRC
Vietnam
Hong Kong

Chapter Six: 1980s (PDF, 86 pgs, 252 Kb)

Election Campaign
Taiwan Arms Sales Issue
China in the 1980s
Reagan Visit to China
Hong Kong
China in the Later 1980s
Human Rights and Political Reform
Tibet
Exchanges Between China and the U.S.
Taiwan
Korea
Soviet Union

Chapter Seven: Crisis Years—Tiananmen And The 1990s (PDF, 58 pgs, 188 Kb)

Tiananmen
U.S.-China Relations in the 1990s
Lee Teng-hui and the Visa Issue
Taiwan Strait Crisis
Japan
Tibet

Concluding Thoughts (PDF, 8 pgs, 48 Kb)

Notes (PDF, 36 pgs, 160 Kb)

Index (PDF, 34 pgs, 168 Kb)