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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809374903321

Autore

Levi Werner <1912-2005.>

Titolo

Modern China's foreign policy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, [1953]

ISBN

0-8166-5817-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (399 pages) : map

Disciplina

327.51

Soggetti

China Foreign relations 1912-1949

China Foreign relations 1949-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 357-389) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- 1 THE INADEQUACY OF OLD PRACTICES -- 2 DEVELOPING A FOREIGN POLICY -- 3 FOREIGN IMPACT AND REFORM -- 4 TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY OR THE OPEN DOOR? -- 5 REBELLION AGAINST THE WEST -- 6 THREATENED LOSS OF MANCHURIA -- 7 NURTURING NATIONALISM -- 8 ALIGNMENT WITH GERMANY AND AMERICA -- 9 STRENGTHENING THE EMPIRE -- 10 REVOLUTION AND FOREIGN MONEY -- 11 "THEORETICAL" ALLY IN WORLD WAR I -- 12 THE WASHINGTON CONFERENCE, 1921 -- 13 TURNING FROM THE WEST TO RUSSIA -- 14 DIPLOMATIC SUCCESSES -- 15 "INCIDENT" WITH JAPAN AND RECONSTRUCTION -- 16 RENEWED AGGRESSION AND INTERNAL DISCORD -- 17 THE ALLIANCE IN WORLD WAR II -- 18 THE AFTERMATH OF YALTA -- 19 THE LOSS OF MANCHURIA AND SINKIANG -- 20 THE COLLAPSE OF THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT -- 21 THE THEORY OF COMMUNIST FOREIGN POLICY -- 22 THE HATE-AMERICA CAMPAIGN -- 23 THE ALLIANCE WITH THE SOVIET UNION -- 24 THE BID FOR ASIAN LEADERSHIP -- 25 REALIZING AMBITIONS IN ASIA -- NOTES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

Sommario/riassunto

What are China’s objectives in world affairs and what course will she pursue to achieve her goals? These are the questions of vital concern to the Western democracies, questions that can be approached intelligently only from a knowledge of how China’s for.