4 Lost Opportunity or Mission Impossible. A Historiographical Essay on the Marshall Mission to China, December 1945–January 1947

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 7
3. Note on Transliteration 9
4. Abbreviations 11
5. Acknowledgments 13
6. Introduction: US-China Relations at a Historic Crossroad 15
7. Part One. Background and Lost Voices
8. 1 From Admirer to Critic. Li Dazhao’s Changing Attitudes toward the United States 31
9. 2 Legacy of the Exclusion Act and Chinese Americans’ Experience 55
10. 3 Disillusioned Diplomacy. US Policy towards Wang Jingwei’s Reorganized National Government, 1938–1945 81
11. Part Two. Did America Lose China?
12. 4 Lost Opportunity or Mission Impossible. A Historiographical Essay on the Marshall Mission to China, December 1945–January 1947 113
13. 5 Negotiating from Strength. US-China Diplomatic Challenges at the Korean War Armistice Conference, 1951–1953 135
14. 6 Mao Zedong and the Taiwan Strait Crises 185
15. Part Three. Rapprochement and Opportunities
16. 7 Media and US-China Reconciliation 215
17. 8 Sino-American Relations in the Wake of Tiananmen, 1989–1991 241
18. 9 Jiang Zemin and the United States. Hiding Hatred and Biding Time for Revenge 261
19. Part Four. Did China Lose America?
20. 10 China’s Belt-Road Strategy. Xinjiang’s Role in a System without America 293
21. 11 The East and South China Seas in Sino-US Relations 319
22. Conclusion: The Coming Cold War II? 345
23. Index 359