This enthralling volume is a product of current Sino-U.S. scholarly co-operation. It makes full use of recently released Chinese and American official archives, and provides a fascinating and instructive account of how two mutually hostile powers nevertheless found it possible--indeed imperative--to communicate with each other.
   --Victor Funnell, Asian Affairs

Robert S. Ross is Professor of Political Science at Boston College and a Research Associate at the John King Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University.

Jiang Changbin is Director of the International Strategic Research Institute at the Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party in Beijing.

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• The Golden Age of the U.S.-China-Japan Triangle, 1972-1989
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