4. A Half Century of Engagement: The Study of China and the Role of the China Scholar Community

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Part I. The Making and Unmaking of the U.S.-China Relationship
4. 1. Engaging China: Fifty Years of Sino-American Relations 3
5. 2. The Logic and Efficacy of Engagement: Objectives, Assumptions, and Impacts 32
6. 3. Mismanaging China’s Rise: The South China Sea Dispute and the Transformation of Sino-American Relations from Strategic Partners to Strategic Rivals 56
7. Part II. Thinking About How We Think About China
8. 4. A Half Century of Engagement: The Study of China and the Role of the China Scholar Community 89
9. 5. The American Dream and the China Dream: Unpeaceful Evolutions 120
10. 6. U.S.-China Retrospective: Forty Years of Commercial Relations 146
11. 7. A Perspective on Chinese Economics: What Have We Learned? What Did We Fail to Anticipate? 174
12. Part III. On the Ground Nongovernmental, People-To-People Cooperation
13. 8. Strategic Adaptation: American Foundations, Religious Organizations, and NGOs in China 199
14. 9. U.S.-China Relations: A Public Health Perspective 229
15. 10. Thinkers. Builders. Symbols. Spies? Sino-U.S. Educational Relations in the Engagement Era 260
16. Part IV. Fault Lines, Threats to Peace and Reflections on the Future
17. 11. U.S.-China Military Relations: From Enmity to Entente and Maybe Back Again 295
18. 12. China’s Periphery: A Rift Zone in U.S.-China Relations 335
19. 13. Forty-Plus Years of U.S.-China Diplomacy: Realities and Recommendations 365
20. 14. Engagement with China: A Eulogy and Reflections on a Gathering Storm 391
21. Afterword 423
22. Acknowledgments 427
23. Contributors 429
24. Index 437