Modern China’s Foreign Policy

Werner Levi

• Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
• Year: 1953
• eBook ISBN: 9780816663484
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: International Relations
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Modern China's Foreign Policy was first published in 1953. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.

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 foreign policy has developed.

In this illuminating and carefully documented book, Professor Levi analyzes china's attitudes and actions toward the rest of the world and clarifies many motivations behind her behavior, past and present.

He traces the development of her foreign relations from the beginning of the modern era of Chinese contacts with Westerners, a little more than hundred years ago. The emphasis, however, is on the twentieth century, and particularly on the years since the peace settlements of World War I.

The complex balance of relationships between China and the United States, on the one hand, and China and the Soviet Union, on the other, since the end of World War II is discussed in detail. Communist doctrine, notwithstanding its apparent rigidity, is shown to be a conveniently adjustable tool, capable of adaptation to the needs and strategies of present-day China.

An integral part of the account is the attempt to single out and interpret the internal forces -- cultural, social, and economic -- that have influenced and shaped China's external policies. Thus, it is shown that the determinants of China's foreign policy have often been pressures and complexities within the country and that and understanding of the Chinese people and their traditions is essential to nations in their dealings with China.

Table of contents

• 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