People's Diplomacy: How Americans and Chinese Transformed US-China Relations during the Cold War

Kazushi Minami

Open Access Published by Cornell University Press 2024

People's Diplomacy

How Americans and Chinese Transformed US-China Relations during the Cold War

Kazushi Minami

In the series The United States in the World

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501774164

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About this book

In People's Diplomacy, Kazushi Minami shows how the American and Chinese people rebuilt US-China relations in the 1970s, a pivotal decade bookended by Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to China and 1979 normalization of diplomatic relations. Top policymakers in Washington and Beijing drew the blueprint for the new bilateral relationship, but the work of building it was left to a host of Americans and Chinese from all walks of life, who engaged in "people-to-people" exchanges. After two decades of estrangement and hostility caused by the Cold War, these people dramatically changed the nature of US-China relations. Americans reimagined China as a country of opportunities, irresistible because of its prodigious potential, while Chinese reinterpreted the United States as an agent of modernization, capable of enriching their country and rejuvenating their lives. Drawing on extensive research at two dozen archives in the United States and China, People's Diplomacy redefines contemporary US-China relations as a creation of the American and Chinese people.

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Kazushi Minami is Associate Professor at the Osaka School of International Public Policy, Osaka University.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Introduction Open Access Download PDF	1
Chapter 1 The Origins of People’s Diplomacy Open Access Download PDF	20
Chapter 2 Trade A New Open Door Open Access Download PDF	44
Chapter 3 Science A Miracle Drug Open Access Download PDF	67
Chapter 4 Education To “Change China” Open Access Download PDF	91
Chapter 5 Tourism The New Marco Polo Open Access Download PDF	115
Chapter 6 Sport Friendship and Competition Open Access Download PDF	138
Chapter 7 Art From Mao to Beethoven Open Access Download PDF	159
Epilogue Open Access Download PDF	180
Acknowledgments Open Access Download PDF	191
Notes Open Access Download PDF	195
Selected Bibliography Open Access Download PDF	249
Index Open Access Download PDF	255

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Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 270
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 20
- Images: 20
- Other: 20 b&w halftones
Keywords: people to people; 1970s; Nixon administration; sino-american; Henry Kissinger; Beijing; engagement over isolation; foreign policy

eBook

Published: March 27, 2024
ISBN: 9781501774164