Pre-Owned The Red China Papers: What Americans Deserve to Know About U.S.-Chinese Relations (Hardcover) 0870002619 9780870002618

The purpose of this historical "primer" is to acquaint the general reader with the central facts of the Chinese-American relationship over its extended history, and to highlight the several crises of the past three decades. To comprehend what has really happened to China since the close of World War II is, in fact, to understand much of what has happened to the entire world since 1945. Author Kubek, Academic Dean of Frisco College, Texas, surveys Sino-U.S. relations from 1841, focusing on the 1946-73 years. He traces the rise of Communist terror, Mao's duplicity, and his takeover of the mainland. Then Dr. Kubek reviews twenty years of friendship for Taiwan, climaxed by President Nixon's stunning about-face in this area of U.S. foreign policy. Troubling questions are posed, and answered, in this authoritative political history of modern China.