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Warren I. Cohen
America's Response to China
A History of Sino-American Relations
Columbia UP, 2000
What's inside?
From quasicolonialism to Clinton: A detailed history of Sino-U.S. relations through the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries
Recommendation
Foreign relations historian Warren I. Cohen does a masterly job of condensing more than 200 years of Sino-American history (up to the Clinton administration, so not including today’s complex fiscal ties) into a brief, readable book. For the most part, his approach is factual and reportorial – Cohen avoids grand sweeps of theory and interpretation. However, to the untrained eye, this book may seem quite confusing: Cohen uses the Wade-Giles system of romanizing Chinese characters, rather than the more familiar pinyin system, and his organization of historic material is only very roughly chronological. Readers will nonetheless acquire a strong sense of the important themes, the major evolutionary stages and the prominent figures involved in the development of Sino-U.S. relations. getAbstract recommends this retrospective account to anyone with a professional, non-academic interest in the history of America’s relationship with China.
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About the Author
Warren I. Cohen is an historian of America’s foreign relations. He specializes in U.S. relations with East Asia.
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