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The Dragon and the Snake : An American Account of the Turmoil in China, 1976-1977 /

Gates, Millicent Anne

The Dragon and the Snake : An American Account of the Turmoil in China, 1976-1977 / Millicent Anne Gates, E. Bruce Geelhoed. - 1 online resource (240 p.) : 27 illus.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION. "Everything Seemed to Happen in 1976 and 1977" -- CHAPTER 1. "Tell the President We'll Go" -- CHAPTER 2. The Work of a China-Watcher -- CHAPTER 3. Coping with Calamity: The Tangshan Earthquake -- CHAPTER 4. "Mao'sDead!" -- CHAPTER 5. The Purges of October -- CHAPTER 6. A New Environment -- CHAPTER 7. Waiting for Deng -- CHAPTER 8. Waiting for Carter -- CONCLUSION. Holding the Fort -- Bibliography -- Index

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The United States Liaison Office (USLO) served as the diplomatic contact for Sino-American relations between the time of the Nixon-Kissinger opening of China in 1971-1972 and the achievement of full normalization in 1979. This book presents the importance of the USLO to American foreign policy in the 1970s.




Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.


In English.

9780812280364 9781512802238

10.9783/9781512802238 doi


European History.
Political Science.
World History.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy.

DS779.26 / .G38 1986

951.05/7