The United States and China: Into the Twenty-first Century

by Michael Schaller

From the Opium Wars of the 1840s, to the Red Scare of the 1940s, through the Tiananmen "massacre" of 1989, and the Wen Ho Lee "espionage case" of 2000, Chinese-American relations have swung like a pendulum throughout the years. I The United States and Into the Twenty-First Century--now
in its third edition and thoroughly revised and updated--looks at over a century of Chinese-American turmoil from a dual perspective, examining how two dramatically different cultures interacted and collided. Based on research by the author as well as by scholars in both countries, it examines the
periodic cooperation and hostility between both governments and people in the United States and China. The book places special emphasis on understanding China's unique role in the Cold War and its centrality to the American obsession with the Vietnam War. It explains the interactions between
domestic policies in China and the United States and their international behavior. The discussion of the post-World War II period, which constitutes a major portion of this textbook, has been completely revised to incorporate a vast new body of primary materials and research monographs written by
Chinese and American scholars since 1990. Two entirely new chapters analyze Chinese-American relations during the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton administrations and examine the paradox of how, despite increasingly close social, political, and economic cooperation, fear of China has again become part of
the American political debate.

Genres: History, Nonfiction, China, Politics, United States

256 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1979

About the author

Michael Schaller is Regents Professor of History at the University of Arizona. A specialist in twentieth-century American politics and foreign policy, he earned his bachelor's degree from SUNY Binghamton in 1968 and his master's (1969) and doctorate (1974) degrees from the University of Michigan.

Reviews

[Hudd Huddleston · Rating 4 out of 5]

i really like this book cause it doesnt assume that you already know everything about history. it gives clear outlines and brief backgrounds before it goes into anything detailed. it taught me alot about the korean and vietnam wars, which i knew nothing about.. so that was nice.. its an easy read, not to scholarly. my u.s.- sino relations teacher recomended the book to me, and it works out nice cause it has followed our class sylabus to the tee.

[Janice Orlando · Rating 3 out of 5]

I learned that white, Christian, American people are evil and should all die in a fire. As soon as possible. Ok, actually that stuff is just in the first part about the Opium wars. Clearly Schaller knows little about this time period and attempted to make up for it with rhetoric. However, the middle part of the book is a nice run-through of China-US relations - especially the Cold War era. I liked the information about Vietnam.

[Dominic · Rating 2 out of 5]

200 pages on how China has changed in the last few decades and how it has affected relations with the US