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The Dragon and the Snake : An American Account of the Turmoil in China, 1976-1977 / Millicent Anne Gates, E. Bruce Geelhoed.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©1986Description: 1 online resource (240 p.) : 27 illusContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780812280364
  • 9781512802238
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 951.05/7 19
LOC classification:
  • DS779.26 .G38 1986
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9781512802238

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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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