China's Economic Relations with the West and Japan, 1949-1979: Grain, Trade and Diplomacy

ISBN-13: 9780415646574 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 304 str.

Chad Mitcham

Opis

Farm and business lobby groups played a vital role in the erosion of the American-led trade embargo against China from 1949-1979. This text charts the complicated picture of how economic relations between China and the West/Japan developed in these years.

Recenzje

"Mitcham reviews the economic and foreign trade diplomacy conducted between China on the one hand and Japan and the West on the other. A particular focus of the work is on how China’s diplomatic policies successfully undermined the American-led trade embargo between 1949 and 1979. Another major and interrelated theme is the gradual Chinese abandonment of Mao’s policy of self-reliance through a halting “readjustment” process based on reduced industrialization targets; the gradual lessening of Chinese economic dependence on the Soviet Union; the purchase of Western and Japanese equipment, complete industrial installations, related technology, and technical support, and a return to the pre-revolutionary policy of importing Western grain." --Reference & Research Book News

Spis treści

Part 1: 1949 to August 1960  Preface  Introduction  1. Grain Imbalance, CHINCOM and China's Economic and Foreign Trade Strategy: 1949 to June 1957  2. Famine, 'the Great Leap' and China's 'Test Purchases' of Western Grain: July 1957 to August 1960  Part 2: September 1960 to October 1962  3. Chinese-Western grain Trade Diplomacy: Credits and Famine Relief, September 1960 to October 1962  4. Grain, Aircraft and the Lennedy Administration's 'China Policy' Debate: June 1960 to October 1962  Part 3: October 1962 to July 1964  5. Chemical Fertiliser, Equipment and Technology and Japanese-Western Competition in the 'China Trade': October 1962 to September 1963  6. 'China Market' Rivalries Intensify: Washington and Taibei's Response, October 1963 to July 1964  Part 4: August 1964 to December 1965  7. The 'Third Front', Vietnam and China's Foreign Trade: August 1964 to February 1965  8. Vietnam Escalation and the 'Non-Strategic' 'China Trade': Washington's Position Reconsidered, March to December 1965  Part 5: 1965 to 1974 9. 'Cultural Revolution' Delays: Steel Complex Negotiations and US-Allied Trade Policy, 1965 and 1966 10. Emergence from 'Cultural Revolution': Suspended Trade Negotiations Resumed. US Trade Controls Relaxed, 1966 to 1979 Appendices 1. Biographical Sketches of Chinese Officials

O autorze

Chad J. Mitcham, a London-based writer and researcher, recieved his PhD in History at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He has studied and worked in several countries.