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About Face by James Mann

About Face

A History of America’s Curious Relationship with China, from Nixon to Clinton

By James Mann

By James Mann

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Paperback $17.95

Feb 15, 2000 | 464 Pages

About Face by James Mann
Paperback
Feb 15, 2000 | 464 Pages

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"Mann’s colorful and detailed narrative, studded with dozens of vivid anecdotes, reveals how ineptly [we] have managed our ties with the world’s most populous nation." —The Washington Post Book World

Drawing on hundreds of previously classified documents, scores of interviews, and his own experience, James Mann, former Los Angeles Times Beijing bureau chief, presents the fascinating inside story of contemporary U.S.-China relations.

President Nixon and Secretary of State Kissinger began their diplomacy with China in an attempt to find a way out of Vietnam. The remaining Cold War presidents saw China as an ally against the Soviet Union and looked askance at its violations of international principles. With the end of communism and China’s continued human rights abuses, the U.S has failed to forge a genuinely new relationship with China. This is the essential story of contemporary U.S./China policy.

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About James Mann

James Mann, the author of Beijing Jeep, is a diplomatic correspondent and foreign affairs columnist for the Washington bureau of the Los Angeles Times. He lives in Silver Spring, Maryland.

Product Details

Category: World Politics | 20th Century U.S. History | Asian World History

Paperback | $17.95
Published by Vintage
Feb 15, 2000 | 464 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780679768616

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"Revealing and lively–eminently readable, often provocative."–The Wilson Quarterly

"The best book ever written by an American reporter about the strange relation between China and America."–Ross Terrill, author of Mao, China in Our Time, and Madame Mao

"Mann takes us through the dizzying diplomacy and strategic U-turns that have characterized our formal relationship."–The Wall Street Journal

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