Titlebook: Eisenhower and American Public Opinion on China; Mara Oliva Book 2018 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 Eisenhower Admi

消毒

ple’s Republic of China.Offers new insights into Sino-AmericIn the 1950s, most of the American public opposed diplomatic and trade relations with Communist China; traditional historiography blames this widespread hostility for the tensions between China and the United States during Dwight D. Eisenho

PON

Book 2018ad hostility for the tensions between China and the United States during Dwight D. Eisenhower’s presidency. In this book, Mara Oliva reconsiders the influence of U.S. public opinion on Sino-American relations, arguing that it is understudied and often misinterpreted. She shows how the Eisenhower adm

Evolve

Introduction, a review of the current literature on Sino-American relations in the early Cold War. Second, it discusses the challenges encountered and the methodology used in assessing the influence of US public opinion on the administration’s China policy. It argues that the role that popular opinion played in

Ingratiate

Blanch

Challenge One: Dien Bien Phu and the Geneva Conference of 1954,ietminh take control of the Indochina peninsula. The vast revisionist literature on the involvement of Eisenhower’s administration in Indochina has advanced numerous interpretations of the influence those contradictory popular feelings had on the President’s thinking. Without disputing Eisenhower’s

恃強凌弱

cloture

Diuretic

Hard Line Until the End, intensified through 1958 and reached a peak when the Chinese Communists began shelling the offshore islands for a second time in the autumn of that year. While support for establishing diplomatic relations with Beijing (Peiping) and its admission into the United Nations never reached an overall nat

評論者

Conclusions,n, did not let popular feelings shape their national security agenda but used them only as warning signs to determine whether opposition was building against a policy. Consequently, public opinion did not influence the administration’s hard line policy toward Beijing as previously assumed by histori

我不重要

Book 2018 hampering relations with the Communist giant and seriously heightening the risk of nuclear conflict. Drawing together an extensive array of published and unpublished sources, this book offers a new prism for understanding one of the most difficult decades in the history of both countries..