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International Competition in China, 1899-1991: The Rise, Fall, and Restoration of the Open Door Policy book cover

1st Edition

International Competition in China, 1899-1991 The Rise, Fall, and Restoration of the Open Door Policy

By Bruce Elleman Copyright 2015
220 Pages
by Routledge

220 Pages
by Routledge

220 Pages
by Routledge
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China's recent economic reforms have opened its economy to the world. This policy, however, is not new: in the late nineteenth century, the United States put forward the Open Door Policy as a counter to European exclusive 'spheres of influence' in China. This book, based on extensive original archival research, examines and re-evaluates China's Open Door Policy. It considers the policy from its... Read more

Preface  Introduction: Open Door versus Spheres of Interest   1. The Origins of the Open Door Policy in China  2. Secret Diplomacy Undermines the Open Door  3. The Growth of Nationalism in Post-1911 China  4. The Debacle at Paris  5. The 1917 October Revolution's Impact on the Open Door Policy  6. The Washington Conference, 1921-1922  7. Soviet Attempts to Open Diplomatic Relations with China and Japan  8. Soviet-Japanese Secret Diplomacy Undermines the Open Door Policy  9. The Soviet-Japanese Struggle to Partition China  10. The Open Door Policy and China's Post-war Territorial Integrity  11. The Open Door Policy and the Chinese Civil War, 1945-1949  12. The Open Door Policy in the Era of the Two Chinas  Conclusions: A Reassessment of the Open Door Policy's Impact on China

Biography

Bruce A. Elleman is Research Professor at the Maritime History Department of the U.S. Naval War College

 

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