The Chinese world order: Traditional China's foreign relations (Harvard East Asian series)

Fairbank, John K.

distributed by Oxford U.P

Public discussion of our China policy in recent months has emphasized the need for a historical view of the ancient "Middle Kingdom" (the Chinese name for China) and its modern revolution. Fairbank has been a leading witness before Congressional groups such as Senator Fulbright's Committee on Foreign Relations, where his testimony received worldwide attention. This volume presents the major themes of his testimony more fully by bringing together essays first published in various national journals, mainly in 1966.   The three parts of this book--"China's Revolution in the Light of Her Past," "The Taiwan Problem," and "Communist China and American Policy"--all bring a knowledge of China's long tradition to bear upon her present crisis. China's past still provides the main repertory of themes and styles, assumptions and methods, upon which her leaders draw in trying to meet their problems. Mao and his party are both circumscribed and inspired by the history of their Middle Kingdom. Although this history is by no means the sole determinant of their actions, it is the specific factor least well known, and therefore most illuminating, to Americans.   The importance and timeliness of these essays, the urgency of their subject matter, are plain enough. As Fairbank says, "We have to face the fact that the Chinese quarter of mankind live on the other side of a cultural gap, and our effort to bridge this gap in the next decade may make us or break us."

China: The People’s Middle Kingdom and the U.S.A.

History

Americas

Harvard University Press

A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF CHINESE COMMUNISM

Schwartz, Benjamin

Brandt, Conrad

Asia

Atheneum

The Great Chinese Revolution, 1800-1985

Chatto and Windus

East Asia: The Great Tradition

Politics & Social Sciences

Reischauer, Edwin O.

Anthropology

Houghton/Mifflin

First published in 1952. This is a study of the Chinese Communist Party line, in its development over a period of thirty years, from 1921-1950. Forty key documents (in Chinese, Japanese and Russian) have been selected which mark significant stages or aspects of the ideological development of the Communist movement in China. The documents are supported by critical commentaries which give an account of the major developments in Chinese Communist strategy over the years. There is an extensive bibliography, index and glossary of Chinese names and terms.

A Documentary History of Chinese Communism

Reference

Routledge

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