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China Confidential:American Diplomats
and Sino-American Relations


PART I: GEORGE, THE ONLINE CATALOG
PART II: INDEXES AND DATABASES
PART III: INTERNET RESOURCES
PART IV: RELATED PUBLICATIONS BY DR. NANCY BERNKOPF TUCKER
PART V: ADDITIONAL RESOURCES LOCATED WITHIN LAUINGER LIBRARY


PART I: GEORGE, THE ONLINE CATALOG


subject search>>>diplomats-history-United States-20th century

Tucker, Nancy Bernkopf. China Confidential: American Diplomats and Sino-American Relations, 1945-1996. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001. (E183.8.C5 T835 2001)

keyword search>>>diplomatic relations and China

Ross, Robert S. and Jiang Changbin, eds. Re-examining the Cold War: U.S.-China Diplomacy, 1953-1973. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Asia Center, 2001. (E183.8.C5 R38 2001)

Solomon, Richard H. Chinese Political Negotiating Behavior, 1967-1984. Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 1995. (DS777.8 S64 1995)

subject search>>>United States-foreign relations-China

Cohen, Warren I. America's Response to China: A History of Sino-American Relations. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. (E183.8.C5 C62 2000)

Dulles, Foster Rhea. American Policy Toward Communist China, 1949-1969. New York: Crowell, 1972. (E183.8.C5 D79 1972)

Mann, James. About Face: A History of America's Curious Relationship With China. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. (E183.8.C5 M319

author search>>>United States. Dept. of State

United States. Dept. of State. Foreign Relations of the United States, China. Washington, U.S. Government Printing Office. (S 1.1:964-68/v.30) (JX233.A3 C53)

keyword search>>>State Department and China

Background Notes, China. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Public Affairs, 1998. (S1.123:C44/998)

Davis, Michael C., ed. Confidential U.S. State Department Central Files: China, Foreign Affairs, 1950-1954 [microform]. Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, 1985. (Mfilm 682)


PART II: INDEXES AND DATABASES


1)Transdex Index to Translations of the Joint Publications Research Service (JPRS) (paper index) [Government Documents Z 7403.C 38]

search>>>China

Wang, Bingnan. "Nine Years of Sino-U.S. Talks in Retrospect." Washington, DC: JPRS, August 1985. (JPRS-CPS-85-069)

2) International Political Science Abstracts

search>>>U.S.-China relations

Hong, Zhaohui, and Yi Sun. "The Butterfly and the Making of [U.S-China] 'Ping Pong Diplomacy.'" Journal of Contemporary China. 9:25 (Nov. 2000).

Tucker, Nancy Bernkopf. "War or Peace in the Taiwan Strait? Washington Quarterly, 19:1 (Winter 1996).

3) PAIS International

search>>>United States diplomacy and China

Gertov, Melvin. Fragile Partnership: the United States and China. Asian Perspective, 23:2 (1999).

"U.S. Relations with China: Pros and Cons; 1995-96 Policy Debate Topic. Congressional Digest, 74:193-224 (Aug-Sept 1995).

4) PolicyFile

search>>>china and diplomacy

"Sino-American Relations: In Search of Direction. ISD Reports, v.III, no.1. From the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy's Web Site,Georgetown University, Sept. 1996.

5) Declassified Documents

search>>>'diplomatic relations' and China

Memorandum for Ambassador Woodcock (Peking) Cable. Department of State. Top Secret. Issue date: Sept 8, 1978. Date Declassified: July 1, 1999. ID: 2000010100146

"Memorandum of Dr. Brzezinski's Meeting with Ambassador Han Hsu"    Memo. White House. Secret. Issue Date: June 19, 1978. date    declassified: June 30, 1999. ID: 2000010100463

6) Digital National Security Archive

search>>>China and United States policy

Bohlen, Charles. "Charles Bohlen's Comments on Kennan's Paper on the Sino-Soviet Split and the Implication for U.S. Policy," Secret Memorandum, May 25, 1962.

Kissinger, Henry. "Implications for U.S. Policy of the Participation of the People's Republic of China in Multilateral Diplomacy," Unclassified, National Security Study Memorandum, November 12, 1971.

Wright, Jerauld. "Conversation with Secretary General Chang Chun on the Chinese Nuclear Explosion,Secret, Cable, November 7, 1964.


PART III: INTERNET RESOURCES


Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training
<http://www.adst.org/>

A private organization whose mission is to enhance the effectiveness of American diplomacy. It is the only private organization in the United States dedicated primarily to the preparation of comprehensive records of the practice and history of modern U.S. diplomacy.

Council on Foreign Relations
<http://www.cfr.org/>

A nonpartisan membership organization, research center, and publisher dedicated to increasing America's understanding of the world and contributing ideas to U.S. foreign policy.

Institute for the Study of Diplomacy
<http://cfdev.georgetown.edu/sfs/programs/isd/>

A part of Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, the Institute studies the practitioner's craft: how diplomats and other foreign affairs professionals succeed and the lessons to be learned from their success and failures.

U.S. Department of State
<http://www.state.gov/>

The lead U.S. foreign affairs agency, the Department formulates, represents, and implements the President's foreign policy.

The Asia Society
<http://www.asiasociety.org/>

A national nonprofit, nonpartisan educational organization, the Society is dedicated to fostering understanding of Asia and communication between Americans and the peoples of Asia and the Pacific.


PART IV: RELATED PUBLICATIONS BY DR. NANCY BERNKOPF TUCKER


Cohen, Warren I. and Nancy Bernkopf Tucker eds. Lyndon Johnson Confronts the World: American Foreign Policy, 1963-1968. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. (E846.L95 1994)

Tucker, Nancy Bernkopf. Patterns in the Dust: Chinese-American Relations and the Recognition Controversy, 1949-1950. New York: Columbia University Press, 1983. (E183.8.C5 T836 1983)

Tucker, Nancy Bernkopf.. Hong Kong, and the United States, 1945-1992: Uncertain Friendships. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1994. (E183.8.T3 T83 1994)


PART V: ADDITIONAL RESOURCES LOCATED WITHIN LAUINGER LIBRARY


The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training's Foreign Affairs Oral History Program was established in 1988 and is housed in the Special Collections Division of Lauinger Library at Georgetown University. The collection is comprised of oral histories taken from a number of projects, all concerning the experiences of those employed in diplomacy and consular affairs and their families.

Please see http://www.library.georgetown.edu/dept/speccoll/cl999.htm for more information.

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