Harry Harding

China's foreign relations in the 1980s

What role will China play in world affairs during the 1980s, now that it has normalized relations with the United States and opened wider its economic doors? In this thoughtful and important book, six respected scholars analyze the major factors that shape the foreign policies of China today. The book begins with an essay by Michael Hunt that puts Chinas foreign relations in historical perspective. In subsequent chapters, Kenneth Liberthal discusses the domestic context of Chinas foreign policy, Steven Levine analyzes Chinas regional policies within Asia, Bruce Reynolds focuses on the role China plays in todays international economy, and Jonathan Pollack assesses Chinas place in the global strategic competition between the Soviet Union and the United States. The book concludes with a chapter by editor Harry Harding on change and continuity in Chinas foreign policy since 1949.

Has U.S. China Policy Failed

The United States is immersed in its most intense China policy debate in decades, which will almost certainly get more heated and public in 2016. For a variety of reasons, reviewed here, dissatisfaction with Chinas domestic and international evolution has become widespread as has pessimism about the future of U.S.–China relations, leading to a growing debate over three broad ways to revise U.S. policy.

China and northeast Asia : the political dimension

In this study, Harry Harding evaluates Chinas emergence as a regional and global power, and the responses from the nations which will be most affected by its new position. Co-published with the Asia Society.

How the Past Shapes the Present: Five Ways in Which History Affects China's Contemporary Foreign Relations

The history of Chinas foreign relations is an interesting and controversial topic in its own right, as the essays in this special issue so amply demonstrate. But it is also central to an understanding of Chinas contemporary international relations. The history of Chinas foreign relations is not just a chronicle of the past, but also a set of facts and ideas and images that are alive in the minds of policy-makers and the public today, thereby shaping the present and future of Chinas relationship with the rest of the world.

Organizing China: The Problem of Bureaucracy, 1949-1976

1. The politics of bureaucracy in contemporary China 2. Organization building and consolidation, 1949-1953 3. Organizational rationalization, 1952-1955 4. The origins of the first crisis, 1955-1956 5. The first crisis: the hundred flowers, 1956-1957 6. The great leap forward and its aftermath, 1957-1962 7. The origins of the second crisis, 1962-1966 8. The second crisis: the cultural revolution, 1966-1968 9. Attempts at organizational revitalization, 1967-1969 10. Bureaucracy and the struggle for succession, 1969-1976 11. Conclusion Notes Glossary Bibliography Index.