China's Quest: The History of the Foreign Relations of the People's Republic of China

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Автор: John Garver

Название: China's Quest: The History of the Foreign Relations of the People's Republic of China

Язык: English

Издательство: Oxford : Oxford University Press

Год: 2016

Формат: pdf

Размер: 12,5 mb

Страниц: 888

From its founding 65 years ago, the People's Republic of China has evolved from an important yet chaotic and impoverished state whose power was more latent than real into a great power on the cusp of possessing the largest economy in the world. Its path from the 1949 revolution to the present has been filled with twists and turns, including internal upheavals, a dramatic break with the Soviet Union, the 1989 revolution wave, and various wars and quasi-wars against India, the USSR, Vietnam, and South Korea. Throughout it all, international pressures have been omnipresent, forcing the regime to periodically shift course. In short, the evolution of the PROC in world politics is an epic story and one of the most important developments in modern world history. Yet to date, there has been no authoritative history of China's foreign relations.

John Garver's monumental China's Quest not only addresses this gap; it will almost certainly serve as the definitive work on the topic for years to come. Garver, one of the world's leading scholars of Chinese foreign policy, covers a vast amount of ground and threads a core argument through the entirety of his account: domestic political concerns-regime survival in particular-have been the primary force driving the People's Republic's foreign policy agenda. The objective of communist regime survival, he argues, transcends the more rudimentary pursuit of national interests that realists focus on. Indeed, from 1949 onward, domestic politics has been integral to the PROC's foreign policy choices. Over the decades, the regime's decisions in the realm of international politics have been dictated concerns about internal stability. In the early days of the regime, Mao and other part leaders were concerned with surviving in the face of American aggression. Later, they came to see the post-Stalinist Soviet model as a threat to their revolutionary program and initiated a stunning break with Khrushchev regime. Finally, the collapse of other communist regimes in and after 1989 radically altered their relationships with capitalist powers, and again preserving regime stability in a world where communism has been largely abandoned became paramount.

List of Figures ix

Preface xi

Acronyms xv

1. The Fateful Embrace of Communism and Its Consequence 1

Act 1) Forging a Revolutionary State

2. Joining the Socialist Camp 29

3. War in Korea and Indochina 59

4. The Bandung Era 92

5. The Sino-Soviet Schism: The Race to Communism and Great Power Status 113

6. Sino-Indian Conflict and the Sino-Soviet Alliance 146

7. Reviving Revolutionary Momentum, 1962—1965 163

8. Revolutionary China's Quest to Transform Southeast Asia 196

9. Countering the United States in Vietnam: Proxy War with the United States 232

10. Ihe Cultural Revolution, 1966-1969 259

11. Rapprochement with the United States 286

12. Countering Soviet Encirclement and Trying to Preserve Mao's Legacy 315

Act II) The Happy Interregnum, 1978-1989

13. Opening to the Outside World 349

14. China's Pedagogic War with Vietnam 383

15. The Strategic Triangle and the Four Modernizations 401

16. Normalization with the Asian Powers: Soviet Union, India, Iran, and Japan 428

Act III) The Leninist State Besieged: Socialism in One Country

17. 1989: The CCP’s Near Escape and Its Aftermath 463

18. The Diplomacy of Damage Control 485

19. The Crisis Deepens: Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe and the USSR 505

20. Constraining Unipolarity in an Unbalanced International System 528

21. China and America in the Persian Gulf 557

22. The Recovery of Hong Kong 578

23. Military Confrontation with the United States 607

24. China's Long Debate over Response to the US Challenge 634

25. China's Emergence as a Global Economic Power 674

26. Reassuring and Unnerving the Neighbors: Japan 705

27. Reassuring and Unnerving the Neighbors: India 734

28. China's Quest for Modernity and the Tides of World History 758

Notes 787

Index 857