A Century of Diplomatic

Author: Li Ying
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Publish Date: 2000-09-01
Features: This book is one of the series "A Hundred Years of China," primarily chronicling the twists and turns of China's century-old diplomacy. The book consists of seventeen chapters, including: "Open Door" and the scramble for food, maintaining the late Qing diplomatic landscape, rejecting the Versailles Treaty at the Paris Peace Conference, "learning from Russia" and the Kuomintang-CCP cooperation, compromise with Japan and reliance on the League of Nations, the nationwide resistance against foreign aggression, integration into the US-Soviet Cold War system, the one-sided diplomacy of the new China, the Korean War and the formation of enmity, seeking common ground while reserving differences and the Bandung Spirit, a honeymoon period between China and the Soviet Union with people gone and buildings empty, rivals shaking hands and making peace, ups and downs and the warmth of spring returning, putting aside past grievances and friendly exchanges, closing the past and opening the future, consolidating the neighborhood and forging new friendships, and the centennial dream of Hong Kong and Macao's return.