History of China-U.S. Relations (1911–1949)

Tao Wenzhao, born at east China’s Zhejiang Province, February 1943, is an honorary academician of the Chinese Academy of Social Science and senior fellow of the Institute of American Studies. He served as the deputy director at the Institute and as secretary general of the Chinese Association of American Studies from 1994 to 2003. He was government-sponsored visiting scholar in the United States from October 1982 to October 1984. He did research on Chinese wartime foreign relations in the  Public Record Office in England during the second half of 1993. He was visiting scholar of American Studies Center, Hong Kong University, September 1998 to February 1999. He was also visiting the US with Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars during summer  of 2002.His research area cover China’s foreign relations during modern times, China-US relations, US foreign policy, Taiwan issue in China-US relations.

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• The Early Republic.- From Versailles to Washington.- The Era of Turbulence.- From Liutiao Lake to Marco Polo Bridge.- From Marco Polo Bridge to Pearl Harbor.- Wartime Allies.- Shift in U.S. Policy Toward China.- Toward Confrontation.