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100 1 $aTucker, Nancy Bernkopf.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82111605
245 10 $aTaiwan, Hong Kong, and the United States, 1945-1992 :$buncertain friendships /$cNancy Bernkopf Tucker.
260 $aNew York :$bTwayne Publishers :$aToronto :$bMaxwell Macmillan Canada ;$aNew York :$bMaxwell Macmillan International,$c1994.
263 $a9404
300 $axvi, 337 pages :$billustrations, map ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
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490 1 $aTwayne's international history series ;$vno. 14
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 299-307) and index.
505 0 $aCh. 1. Introduction: Aid and Influence -- Ch. 2. "Taiwan" on the Mainland -- Ch. 3. Commitment and Crisis: The Alliance, 1950-1965 -- Ch. 4. Economic, Military, and Political Developments, 1950-1965 -- Ch. 5. Society and Culture, 1950-1965 -- Ch. 6. Shifting Priorities in Asia, 1965-1972 -- Ch. 7. The End of an Era, 1972-1982 -- Ch. 8. New Challenges and New Attitudes, 1982-1992 -- Ch. 9. Hong Kong: In China's Shadow -- Ch. 10. Conclusion: Power, Culture, and Commerce in the Pacific.
520 $aAmerican foreign policy in Asia has long been preoccupied with mainland China. But the end of the Cold War and the 1989 Tiananmen massacre have forced the U.S. to think in new ways about the "other" Chinese in Hong Kong and Taiwan. The events at Tiananmen dramatize the human rights dilemma inherent in Hong Kong's scheduled 1997 return to Beijing. And they highlight Taiwan's rapid transformation, initiated in the 1980s, into a freer, democratic society.
520 8 $aAt the end of the Cold War, Nancy Bernkopf Tucker asserts, these developments challenge the United States to take more seriously than ever its relations with Taiwan and Hong Kong - to approach both not as strategic players in the game of dominoes but as significant forces in their own right.
520 8 $aNo other study so clearly focuses American thinking on relations with Hong Kong and Taiwan. Surveying post-1945 U.S. ties with both areas in the context of earlier historical interaction, Tucker explores commerce and trade, military imperatives and political priorities, as well as cultural controversies over Westernization and tradition, bringing to light trends and events in the first comprehensive analysis of these relationships.
520 8 $aTucker reexamines Washington's continual efforts to sustain its uncertain friends through economic assistance and military protection in spite of their sometimes divergent goals and antagonistic policies. The U.S. was not above using its Asian clients to further selfish national interests or cold war strategies but in its dealings with the Nationalist Chinese frequently found itself manipulated rather than dominant. In Hong Kong, Tucker probes the changing dimensions of American support for British control of its Crown Colony, the pivotal role of the United States in Hong Kong's burgeoning economy, and Washington's use of Hong Kong as a strategic foothold and a base for espionage.
520 8 $aTucker also investigates the impact of immigrants from Taiwan and Hong Kong in the U.S., ranging from achievements in art and scholarship to gang violence tied to drugs, illegal immigration and politics.
520 8 $aThe cast of characters in this drama includes political figures - Truman, McCarthy, Eisenhower, Zhou Enlai, Kennedy, Nixon, Deng Xiaoping, Lee Teng-hui, Chiang Kai-shek, and his son and successor Chiang Ching-kuo - but also artists, writers, economists, and soldiers, who enliven the tale as Tucker gracefully and crisply moves through war, revolution, economic dislocation, political upheaval, and cultural confrontation.
520 8 $aIn her final chapters, Tucker vividly outlines the economic and political challenges posed by the emergence of a Greater China. She urges Washington to focus on the region with new intensity and offers balanced guidelines for immediate and future American policy. Scholars and policy makers interested in the economic "miracle" of Taiwan and Hong Kong, in the rise of the Asian-Pacific community, and in Washington's role in shaping it, will welcome her original research and insights.
651 0 $aUnited States$xRelations$zTaiwan.
651 0 $aUnited States$xRelations$zChina$zHong Kong.
651 0 $aTaiwan$xRelations$zUnited States.
651 0 $aHong Kong (China)$xRelations$zUnited States.
830 0 $aTwayne's international history series ;$vno. 14.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86704849
852 00 $bglx$hE183.8.T3$iT83 1994
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