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China Confidential: American Diplomats and Sino-American Relations, 1945-1996
Paper, 638 pages,
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Cast of Characters
Introduction
Chapter One: War Ends, War Begins
Immediate Postwar Period
Marshall Mission
Civil War
China Lobby
Ward Incidents
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
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
U.S. Policy
Negotiation with the PRC I
Sino-Soviet Split
Taiwan I
Offshore Islands
Developments in Taiwan II
Taiwan Rito
Sino-Soviet Split
U.S.-China Policy II
Tibet
Chapter Four: Normalization
Preliminary Indicators
Nixon, Kissinger, and Normalization
Taiwan
Negotiation with the PRC
United Nations
Nixon Trip to China
Chapter Five: 1970s
Liaison Offices
Stalemate
Taiwan
Carter
Deng Xiaoping Visit
Taiwan Relations Act
Relations with the PRC
Vietnam
Hong Kong
Chapter Six: 1980s
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: 1990s
Tiananmen
U.S.-China Relations in the 1990s
Lee Teng-hui and the Visa Issue
Taiwan Strait Crisis
Tibet
Concluding Thoughts
Notes
Index