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A History of China-U.S. Relations (1911–1949)

Part of the Contributions to International Relations Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-9712-8

ISBN: 978-981-16-9711-1

Publisher: Springer Singapore - Springer Journals

Mar 5, 2022

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Chapter 1The Early Republic

Tao, Wenzhao

Pages: 1 –36

[After Sun Yat-sen organized the Society for China’s Regeneration and launched the first Guangzhou Uprising, he was forced into exile. He traveled to many parts of the world, strenuously striving for the support of the Chinese revolution from foreign powers. He understood the feeble revolutionary...
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Chapter 2From Versailles to Washington

Tao, Wenzhao

Pages: 37 –66

[On November 11, 1918, Germany surrendered unconditionally and the First World War ended. On January 18, 1919, the victorious countries met in Versailles just outside Paris for the peace conference that would divide the spoils of war.]
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Chapter 3The Era of Turbulence

Tao, Wenzhao

Pages: 67 –112

[After the death of Yuan Shikai, the factional fighting between the now rudderless Northern warlords became increasingly open and intense, and within a few years, it developed into war on a considerable scale. The warlords all tried to engage imperialist countries as their particular patrons, and...
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Chapter 4From Liutiao Lake to Marco Polo Bridge

Tao, Wenzhao

Pages: 113 –142

[On the evening of September 18, 1931, in a long premeditated move, the Japanese Kwantung Army blew up a section of tract on the South Manchuria Railway near Liutiao Lake Village in a northern suburb of Mukden (present-day Shenyang) and then framed Chinese troops for destroying the tract and...
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Chapter 5From Marco Polo Bridge to Pearl Harbor

Tao, Wenzhao

Pages: 143 –209

[On July 7, 1937, Japanese troops provoked trouble at Lugouqiao (Marco Polo Bridge) outside Beijing, and launched a full-scale invasion of China.]
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Chapter 6Wartime Allies

Tao, Wenzhao

Pages: 211 –257

[The outbreak of the Pacific War brought about great changes in Sino-U.S. relations. Since then, China and the United States had become allies against Japanese fascists, which was the dominant aspect of the bilateral relations. However, China, which had long been in semi-colonial status, did not...
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Chapter 7Shift in U.S. Policy Toward China

Tao, Wenzhao

Pages: 259 –309

[The period between the fall of 1944 and the end of the war in August 1945 was a year of critical importance, one in which America’s China policy changed from a wartime policy to a postwar one. During the whole War of Resistance, that policy can be roughly summarized as supporting Chiang and...
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Chapter 8Toward Confrontation

Tao, Wenzhao

Pages: 311 –394

[On July 26, 1945, the United States, Britain and China issued the Potsdam Declaration, urging Japan to surrender immediately and unconditionally, but the Japanese government blatantly refused.]

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