1. Introduction: The Embrace of Communism and Its Consequence
Act I: Forging a Revolutionary State
2. Joining the Socialist Camp, 1949-1950
3. War in Korea and Indochina, 1950-1953
4. The Bandung
5. The Sino-Soviet Schism: the race to communism and great power
status, 1956-1958
6. Sino-Indian Conflict and the Sino-Soviet
7. Reviving Revolutionary Momentum, 1962-1965
8. Revolutionary China's Quest to Transform Southeast Asia
9. Countering the US in Vietnam: Proxy War with the United
10. The Cultural Revolution
11. Rapprochement with the United States, 1970-1972
12. Countering Soviet Encirclement and Trying to Preserve Mao's
Legacy
Act II: The Happy Interregnum; the Possibility of Liberation
Opens
13. Opening to the Outside World
14. China's Pedagogic War with Vietnam
15. The Strategic Triangle and the Four Modernizations
16. Rapprochement with Asian Powers: Soviet Union, India, Iran and
Japan
Act III: The Leninist State Besieged; Socialism in One Country
17. The CCP's Near Escape and Its Aftermath
18. The Diplomacy of Damage Control
19. The Crisis Deepens: Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe and
the USSR
20. Constraining Unipolarity in a Unbalanced International
System
21. China and American Hegemony in the Persian Gulf
22. The Recovery of Hong Kong
23. Military Confrontation with the United States over Taiwan
24. China's Long Debate over Policy toward the United States
25. China's Emergence as a Global Economic and Military Power
26. Reassuring and Unnerving the Neighbors: Japan
27. Reassuring and Unnerving the Neighbors: India
28. Xi Jinping and the Great Rejuvenation of the Chinese Nation
29. China's Quest for Modernity and the Tides of World History
John W. Garver is Emertius Professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
"Garver readily admits that it is a challenge to cover in-depth all
possible aspects of China's foreign policy. He instead emphasizes
that the purpose of the book is to examine the 'logic and practice
of prc foreign policy.' To this end, he indeed has succeeded."
-- Journal of American-East Asian Relations
"China's Quest lives up to the definitive comprehensiveness
suggested by its subtitle. This superb, lengthy volume knits
together thick descriptions of events in China from 1949 until
today into a clear, compelling narrative."
-- Foreign Affairs
"The culmination of a career of prodigious scholarship, this magnum
opus consolidates John Garver's position as a leader in the field
of modern china's foreign relations. Featuring fresh analyses that
challenge conventional wisdom, the book provides answers to many
puzzles from the past and explores vexing questions of Beijing's
contemporary policies. All scholars and practitioners serious about
understanding the People's Republic of China's long and
tortuous
ascent to global power status must read this epic study."
-- David Shambaugh, George Washington University and the Brookings
Institution; author of China Goes Global
"The history of Chinese foreign policy from 1949 to today may look
like a bewildering series of ideological twists and turns. But
Garver's clear-eyed narrative shows that Beijing always pursued the
regime's survival interests and the country's strategic interests,
in the face of challenges that shifted from American anti-communism
to Soviet anti-Maoism to American democracy promotion. His book
provides an essential foundation for understanding the motives
of
Chinese foreign policy past, present, and future."
-- Andrew J. Nathan, Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science,
Columbia University, and co-author of China's Search for
Security
"In China's Quest, John W. Garver distills a lifetime of learning
into crystalline form. He emphasizes the communist leadership's
instrumental use of assertive nationalism as a primary means for
legitimating its authoritarian Leninist-style rule in the process
of China's ascent to its present status as a global power."
-- Steven I. Levine, co-author of Arc of Empire and, with primary
author Alexander Pantsov, of Mao: The Real Story and Deng
Xiaoping
"John Garver provides readers with an admirable antidote to China's
increasingly one-sided propaganda about the glorious history of its
foreign policy. This easy-to-read, wide-ranging book avoids
polemics and arms readers to refute distortions with well-balanced
arguments backed by carefully marshaled evidence. Those looking for
a single overview that does not hesitate to address today's most
contentious themes are likely to find satisfaction in this
book."
-- Gilbert Rozman, Musgrave Professor of Sociology, Princeton
University
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