Book contents
- Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations
- Reviews
- Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 Three Left Turns
- 2 Digital Resources
- 3 Materials
- 4 Development and Growth
- 5 Capitalism
- 6 Ecological Footprints and Other Forms of Spatial Analysis
- 7 Medicine, Science, and the Environment
- 8 Technology and National Security
- 9 National Security
- 10 Ideology
- 11 Race
- 12 Race and Empire
- 13 US–Indigenous Relations
- 14 Religion
- 15 Gender
- 16 Culture
- 17 Meaning and Emotion
- 18 Nongovernmental Organizations
- 19 A View from China
- Index
19 - A View from China
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 October 2025
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Book contents
- Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations
- Reviews
- Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 Three Left Turns
- 2 Digital Resources
- 3 Materials
- 4 Development and Growth
- 5 Capitalism
- 6 Ecological Footprints and Other Forms of Spatial Analysis
- 7 Medicine, Science, and the Environment
- 8 Technology and National Security
- 9 National Security
- 10 Ideology
- 11 Race
- 12 Race and Empire
- 13 US–Indigenous Relations
- 14 Religion
- 15 Gender
- 16 Culture
- 17 Meaning and Emotion
- 18 Nongovernmental Organizations
- 19 A View from China
- Index
Summary
What is the status and practice of US foreign relations history in China? The author observes that scholars in the field have not experienced the kind of self-examination and self-criticism that American (and other) scholars undertook during the 1980s and 1990s. Although Chinese historians today participate in global historiographical trends, the field, in his view, remains too much in a neopositivist mode.
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- Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations , pp. 385 - 406Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025
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