China–Japan Relations after World War Two

Empire, Industry and War, 1949–1971

Amy King

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9781107131644
• eBook ISBN: 9781316668917
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Asian History
• Index: History

A rich empirical account of China's foreign economic policy towards Japan after World War Two, drawing on hundreds of recently declassified Chinese sources. Amy King offers an innovative conceptual framework for the role of ideas in shaping foreign policy, and examines how China's Communist leaders conceived of Japan after the war. The book shows how Japan became China's most important economic partner in 1971, despite the recent history of war and the ongoing Cold War divide between the two countries. It explains that China's Communist leaders saw Japan as a symbol of a modern, industrialised nation, and Japanese goods, technology and expertise as crucial in strengthening China's economy and military. For China and Japan, the years between 1949 and 1971 were not simply a moment disrupted by the Cold War, but rather an important moment of non-Western modernisation stemming from the legacy of Japanese empire, industry and war in China.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Figures
• Tables
• Acknowledgements
• Notes on names and terms
• Abbreviations
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Empire, industry and war in the China–Japan relationship
• 3 Trading with the enemy, 1949–1952
• 4 Revolution through industrialisation, 1953–1957
• 5 When ideas collide, 1958–July 1960
• 6 Comparing ourselves with Japan, August 1960–1965
• 7 Conclusion: On the eve of diplomatic normalisation, 1966–1971
• Appendix Chinese trade agreements and trade with Japan, 1949–1971
• Note on sources
• Bibliography
• Index