China and the United States Since 1949
China and the United States Since 1949: An International History, is under contract with Bloomsbury Academic as part of its New Approaches to International History series.
A fresh, multilayered approach to the history of US-China relations, China and the United States tells a new story of the relationship since the middle of the twentieth century: one shaped by the tensions between—and changes within—capitalism and socialism in both nations. For the first time, recent insights from several bodies of literature—the US in the world, PRC history, history of capitalism, and history of Chinese America—are brought into a single historical overview of the past seventy years of bilateral ties.
From policymakers to immigrants, businesspeople to workers, and students to activists, China and the United States explores how people in both countries shaped what has become the most important—and contested—bilateral relationship in the twenty-first century. The book emphasizes the domestic social and political contexts of both countries as well as the wider international environment in which bilateral ties operated.
I have written a book chapter based on this research in the Routledge History of US Foreign Relations, available here. I have also contributed a small piece from this research to Voices and Visions, a collaborative, open, online textbook written by historians of the US in the world. My article explored a photograph capturing the meeting between Mao and the Du Boises in Wuhan in 1959 and is available here.
Image: Edward Burtinsky