...This chapter traces Chinese perceptions of America into the 1980s, with Deng Xiaoping’s policy of “opening and reform” that produced a new era of economic modernization even while producing a struggle for the “soul” of China’s intellectual elites between authoritarian and more liberal, Western...

... of Return. It covers the history of U.S.-China relations from the Qing dynasty to the rise of communism and Mao Zedong’s death, through Deng Xiaoping’s introduction of Taoist nationalism and the Tiananmen Square massacre, to 2012. Briefly it covers the international aspects of both relationships, and where...

... demonstrations GTR Great Telos of Return Zhang Beijai Huang Xiang Liang Qichao Nathan Andrew Peking Spring Sun Zhe CCP Chinese Communist Party corruption Gengshen Reforms hegemony liberalism reform period Dengist 1980s Zhao Ziyang Deng Xiaoping Hu Yaobang Jaruzelski Wojciech Solidarity movement...

... relations South China Sea Spratly Nansha Island Vietnam Socialist Republic of SRV Vietnam South Cambodia Deng Xiaoping Khmer Rouge Le Duan Lon Nol Mao Zedong Pol Pot Vietnam War 1979 Sino Vietnam Border War Cam Duong Cao Bang province Carter Jimmy Lang Son PAVN People’s Army of Vietnam...