The Everyday Cold War

Britain and China, 1950-1972

Chi-kwan Mark (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2019
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-10919-3 (ISBN)

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In 1950 the British government accorded diplomatic recognition to the newly founded People’s Republic of China. But it took 22 years for Britain to establish full diplomatic relations with China. How far was Britain’s China policy a failure until 1972? This book argues that Britain and China were involved in the ‘everyday Cold War’, or a continuous process of contestation and cooperation that allowed them to ‘normalize’ their confrontation in the absence of full diplomatic relations. From Vietnam and Taiwan to the mainland and Hong Kong, China’s ‘everyday Cold War’ against Britain was marked by diplomatic ritual, propaganda rhetoric and symbolic gestures. Rather than pursuing a failed policy of ‘appeasement’, British decision-makers and diplomats regarded engagement or negotiation with China as the best way of fighting the ‘everyday Cold War’.

Based on extensive British and Chinese archival sources, this book examines not only the high politics of Anglo-Chinese relations, but also how the British diplomats experienced the Cold War at the local level.

Chi-kwan Mark is Senior Lecturer in International History at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. He is the author of Hong Kong and the Cold War: Anglo-American Relations, 1949-1957 (2004) and China and the World since 1945 (2012).

Introduction
1. Negotiating a Post-imperial Relationship, 1950-3
2. Fighting and Coopting Britain, 1954-64
3. Radicalizing the Everyday Cold War, 1965-6
4. Performing the Ritual of the Cultural Revolution, 1967
5. Normalizing the Confrontation, 1968-70
6. Negotiating full Diplomatic Relations, 1971-2
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	30.04.2019
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	408 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-350-10919-3 / 1350109193
ISBN-13	978-1-350-10919-3 / 9781350109193
Zustand	Neuware