The Practice of Power

In its careful reconstruction of evolving US positions on key issues in the relationship with China, this book is able to explain the change in American-Chinese relations after 1949 from hostility to rapprochment, and to the full normalization of ties in 1979. The author goes on to examine the relationship after normalization, a period in which the United States has come to view China as less of a challenge, but still resistent to certain of the norms of the current international order.