The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom: America and China, 1776 to the Present

We examine both nations' involvement in world events such as World War I and II. Our relationship with China remains one of the most complex and rapidly evolving and is perhaps one of the most important to our nation's future. We meet early American missionaries and chart their influence in China and follow a group of young Chinese students who enroll in American universities, eager to soak up Western traditions. We witness firsthand major and devastating events like the Boxer Rebellion and the rise of Mao. Pomfret takes the myriad historical milestones of two of the world's most powerful nations and turns them into one fluid, fascinating story, leaving us with a nuanced understanding of where these two nations stand in relation to one another and the rest of the world.. Here, John Pomfret, the author of the best-selling Chinese Lessons, takes us deep into these two countries' shared history and illuminates in vibrant, stunning detail every major event, relationship, and ongoing development that has affected diplomacy between these two booming, influential nations

In pursuit of the “Great Harmony:” The co-evolution of the USA and China This book is about the co-evolution of the USA and China --- the intimate, and often surprising, ways that each nation shaped the development of the other. Author John Pomfret, who is deeply rooted in both nations, explains it thus:===Many Americans believe that their country&rsqu. "Engrossing, well-researched, and often surprising" according to Mal Warwick. Some Americans seem to have the impression that the U.S. relationship with China began in 1972 when Richard Nixon flew to Beijing. In The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom, journalist and long-time Beijing resident John Pomfret puts this mistaken impression decisively to re. psfindc said If You Want To Understand Our Moist Important Bilateral Relationshop. Written by one of the last US-Sino journalistic experts out there, Mr Promfret's work is a true tour de force of the complexity of the entwined US/China relationship. You will lean more in this one volume than in a whole college course. From our two nations' love/hate relationship