Americans in China

The book combines an academic sensibility with flowing prose, and it reads as much as an old friend's story as it does a study of historical connections.

Autorentext
Terry Lautz writes and teaches on the history of United States-China relations. He is former vice president of the Henry Luce Foundation, and has chaired the Harvard-Yenching Institute, the Lingnan Foundation, and the Yale-China Association. He is the author of John Birch: A Life (Oxford, 2016) and lives in Reston, Virginia.

Klappentext
Americans in China tells the dramatic stories of individual women and men who encountered the People's Republic of China as adversaries and emissaries, mediators and advocates, interpreters and reporters, soldiers, scientists, and scholars. More often than not, their initial fascination was followed by disillusion and disenchantment, a syndrome reflecting a deep-set ambivalence about whether to accept Communist China on its own terms or to pursue a long-standing quest to remake the Middle Kingdom in America's own image. At a time of great debate over the future of US-China relations, the characters in this book speak to us about the challenges of finding common ground between our two countries.

Inhalt
Preface and Acknowledgments
Chronology of US-China Relations
Introduction: A Tale of Two Chinas
Part One: From Cold War to Reconciliation
1. Walter Judd: Cold War Crusader
2. Clarence Adams and Morris Wills: Searching for Utopia
3. Joan Hinton and Sid Engst: True Believers
4. Chen-ning Yang: Science and Patriotism
5. J. Stapleton Roy: The Art of Diplomacy
Part Two: From Cooperation to Competition
6. Jerome and Joan Cohen: Charting New Frontiers
7. Elizabeth Perry: Legacy of Protest
8. Shirley Young: Joint Ventures
9. John Kamm: Negotiating Human Rights
10. Melinda Liu: Reporting the China Story
Conclusion: The Search for Common Ground
Notes
Selected Readings
Index

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