Sino-American Relations: A New Cold War(Cold War in Asia and Beyond)

Sino-American Relations brings together high-quality research articles in order to examine one aspect of the political mechanism of modern China, from empire to the PRC: political initiatives to root out corruption. Proceeding chronologically, the eleven chapters explore modern political history through a particular focus on the anti-corruption campaigns of early modern and modern China. Our interdisciplinary analysis draws on methodologies from several distinct fields, including political science, civil law, and mass media. Such an analysis reveals the unique characteristics of China’s urbanization, which have transformed not only the country, but also the CCP – from a rural-based totalitarian party to a city-centered authoritarian party, and from a party of the people to a party of powerful interest groups by 2002–2016.

Table of Contents:
Contents Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration Abbreviations Introduction: US-China Relations at a Historic Crossroad (Xiaobing Li and Qiang Fang) Part One - Background and Lost Voices 1.From Admirer to Critic: Li Dazhao’s Changing Attitudes towards the US (Patrick Fuliang Shan) 2.Legacy of the Exclusion Act and Chinese Americans’ Experience (Jingyi Song) 3.Disillusioned Diplomacy: US Policy towards Wang Jingwei’s Reorganized National Government, 1938-1945 (Travis Chambers) Part Two - Did America Lose China? 1.Lost opportunity or Mission Impossible: A Historiographical Essay on the Marshall Mission to China, December 1945-January 1947 (Zhiguo Yang) 2.Negotiating from Strength: US-China Diplomatic Challenges at the Korean War Armistice Conference, 1951-1953 (Pingchao Zhu) 3.Mao Zedong and the Taiwan Strait Crises (Xiaojia Hou) Part Three - Rapprochement and Opportunities 1.Media and US-China Reconciliation (Guolin Yi) 2.Sino-American Relations in the Wake of Tiananmen, 1989-1991 (Yafeng Xia) 3.Jiang Zemin and the United States: Hiding Hatred and Biding Time for Revenge (Qiang Fang) Part Four - Did China Lose America? 1.China’s Belt-Road Strategy: Xinjiang’s Role in a System without America (Xiaoxiao Li) 2.East and South China Seas in Sino-US Relations (Xiaobing Li) Conclusion: The Coming Cold War II? (Xiaobing Li and Qiang Fang) About the Contributors Index

About the Author :
Dr. Xiaobing Li is professor of History and Don Betz Endowed Chair in International Studies at the University of Central Oklahoma. He is currently the editor of Chinese Historical Reviews. His recent publications include 'Sino-American Relations: A New Cold War', 'The Dragon in the Jungle: The Chinese Army in the Vietnam War', 'Attack at Chosin: The Chinese Second Offensive in Korea', and 'Building Ho’s Army: Chinese Military Assistance to North Vietnam'. Dr. Qiang Fang is professor of East Asian History at the University of Minnesota Duluth. He is the current president of Association of Chinese Professors in Social Science (ACPSS). His recent publications include 'Sino-American Relations: A New Cold War', 'The Communist Judicial System in China, 1927-1976', and 'Power Versus Law in Modern China'. Travis Chambers teaches at the University of Central Oklahoma. His research specializes in East Asian nationalism during the twentieth century and Japanese occupation of China in 1937–1945. He is an alum of the Asian Studies Development (ASDP) Program under the East-West Center at the University of Hawaii. Dr. Xiaojia Hou is associate professor in the Department of History, San Jose State University. Her book, Negotiating Socialism in Rural China: Mao, Peasants, and Local Cadres in Shanxi, 1949–1953, was published by Cornell University Press in 2016. She has also published multiple book chapters, articles, and book reviews. Dr. Xiaoxiao Li has taught at the University of Central Oklahoma since 2009. Before his college teaching career, he worked as director of international marketing for China CEE and Power Cost Inc., USA, and served as general manager of Asian Projects for Smith Cogeneration Management in 2001–2008. Dr. Patrick Fuliang Shan is professor in the Department of History at Grand Valley State University. His monograph, Taming China’s Wilderness: Im_x0002_migration, Settlement, and the Shaping of the Heilongjiang Frontier, 1900–1931, probes the history of China’s northeastern frontier during a historical transformation. His new book, Yuan Shikai: A Reappraisal, was published by the University of British Columbia Press in 2018. Dr. Jingyi Song is professor of History and former department chair in the Department of History and Philosophy at the State University of New York at Old Westbury. Her recent publications include, Shaping and Reshaping Chinese American Identity: New York’s Chinese in the Years of the Depression and World War II. Dr. Yafeng Xia is senior professor of Social Sciences at Long Island University in New York. He is the author of Negotiating with the Enemy: U.S.-China Talks During the Cold War, and coauthor of Mao and the Sino-Soviet Partnership: A New History; Mao and the Sino-Soviet Split: A New History; and A Misunder_x0002_stood Friendship: Mao Zedong, Kim Il-sung, and Sino-North Korean Relations. Dr. Zhiguo Yang is professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. He has published several articles on topics of Chinese nationalism, Chinese consumer culture in the twentieth century, and the history of post-WWII interactions between Chinese and American Marine troops in Qingdao. Dr. Guolin Yi is assistant professor of History at Arkansas Tech University and an associate in Research at the Fairbank Centre for Chinese Studies at Harvard University. He has published Media and Sino-American Rapproche_x0002_ment: 1963–1972 and articles in American-East Asian Relations and American Journalism, among others. Dr. Pingchao Zhu is professor and the Director of Graduate Studies in the History Department at the University of Idaho. She has published two books, The Americans and Chinese at the Korean War Cease-fire Negotiations, 1950–1953 and Wartime Culture in Guilin: A City at War.