The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom: America and China, 1776 to the Present
- ISBN-10
- 0805092501
- ISBN-13
- 9780805092509
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 705
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016-11-29
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Author
- John Pomfret
Description
"Our relationship with China remains one of the most complex and rapidly evolving, and is perhaps one of the most important to our nation's future. Here, John Pomfret ... takes us deep into these two countries' shared history, and illuminates ... every major event, relationship, and ongoing development that has affected diplomacy between these two booming, influential nations"--
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