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The Making of a Special Relationship: The United States and China to 1914
Gaddis Smith,Michael H. Hunt +1 more
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This article is published in Foreign Affairs.The article was published on 1983-01-01. It has received 47 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: China.read more
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The Internationalization of China: Foreign Relations At Home and Abroad in the Republican Era
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define and shape Chinese history according to the nature of its foreign relations during the early Republic of 1912 and the People's Republic of 1949, and the difference between those governments shows the progression of international influences.
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The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations
TL;DR: The American Search for Opportunity as mentioned in this paper traces the U.S. foreign policy between 1865 and 1913, linking these two historic trends by noting how the United States - usually thought of as antirevolutionary and embarked on a'search for order' during this era - actually was a determinative force in helping to trigger these revolutions.
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Canton Is Not Boston: The Invention of American Imperial Sovereignty
TL;DR: In this paper, Ruskola analyzes the early history of American foreign relations with China and compares it with the received wisdom about America's special relationship with China, and suggests that the 1844 Treaty of Wanghia was a constitutive moment in U.S. political relations with Asia.
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Cultural Imperialism and American Protestant Missionaries: Collaboration and Dependency in Mid-Nineteenth-Century China
TL;DR: For instance, this article argued that cultural imperialism has yet to prove its usefulness as a term for analysis for better understanding mission history, and that there are basically two reasons for its limited usage to date.
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'Threatening' China and US security: The international politics of identity
TL;DR: This article argued that powerful and pervasive American representations of China have been repeatedly and purposefully responsible for creating a threatening identity, and that these representations have enabled and justified US China policies which themselves have reaffirmed the identities of both China and the United States, protecting the latter when seemingly threatened by the former.