Patterns in the Dust

Chinese-American Relations and the Recognition Controversy, 1949-1950

By: Nancy Bernkopf Tucker

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Hardcover | 31 May 1983 | Edition Number 1

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Chiang Kai-shek's Chinese Nationalist government collapsed in 1949 despite United States support for the regime during the anti-Communist civil war. American policymakers were then forced to choose between rescuing the Nationalists or coming to terms with China's Communist government.

The Truman Administration, caught up in the calculations of cold war diplomacy, refused to make a rash decision. Secretary of State Dean Acheson likened the Nationalist collapse to a tree falling in the forest--the United States would have to wait for the dust settled before it could see ahead clearly.

Patterns in the Dust is a fresh look at a period overwhelmed by later events. Drawing on many previously unavailable sources, Nancy Bernkopf Tucker assesses the factors that influenced Washington policymakers during the critical few months in which the thirty-year estrangement between the two countries began. She examines the government's assessment of the chances for accommodation with the Chinese Communists, the careful efforts to ascertain American public opinion, and the effects of the Korean War which brought reasoned dialogue to an abrupt end.

Patterns in the Dust highlights the flexibility that Dean Acheson retained in American policy toward China. Acheson emerges as a highly pragmatic man determined to preserve contacts with China simply because, as events have proved, that was the realistic way to conduct international relations.

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This is some piece of work. Nothing else like it on the subject. At a very early stage of her career [Nancy Bernkopf Tucker] may have the definitive book on the China-America watershed of 1949-1950. -- Robert J. Donovan, Author of Conflict and Crisis: The Presidency of Harry S. Truman, 1945-1948 This is a first-rate and important study, particularly impressive in terms of its research... I enjoyed reading it and learned a great deal from it. -- George C. Herring, Author of Aid to Russia, 1941-1946: Strategy, Diplomacy, and the Origins of the Cold War

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Non-Fiction Politics & Government International Relations History

Preface	p. vii
A Note on Romanization	p. x
America's China Policy: On the Threshold	p. 1
International Influences European and Asian Perspectives	p. 19
Chinese Communist Policy Unexpected Avenue	p. 40
Kuomintang Decline the Flickering Hope	p. 59
the China Lobby a Dedicated Few	p. 80
Missionaries an Unlikely Peace	p. 100
Commerce in China: An End or a Beginning?	p. 112
Journalists and the Media Changing Times; Shifting Views	p. 134
the Public, Congress, Scholars Seeking the Limits	p. 154
the State Department and the White House: A Decision Unrealized	p. 173
Epilogue	p. 195
Notes	p. 209
Bibliography	p. 323
Index	p. 383
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Patterns in the Dust

Chinese-American Relations and the Recognition Controversy, 1949-1950

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