Research Catalog

Title

"Only Nixon" : his trip to China revisited and restudied / James C. Humes and Jarvis D. Ryals ; foreword by Edward Nixon.

Author

Humes, James C.

Publication

Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, c2009.

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Additional Authors

Ryals, Jarvis D.

Description

xi, 79 p., [32] p. of plates : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"In 1998, Professor Humes and Doctor Ryals traveled with Edward Nixon, the brother of the President, to the People's Republic of China. While retracing Nixon's steps, they interviewed those Chinese Foreign Service experts who had planned the president's meetings with Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai. These protégés of Chou En-lai ended their diplomatic careers as envoys in Anglophone nations such as the U.S., U.K., Canada, and Australia. During interviews with Humes, Ryals, and Edward Nixon, these experts shared their observations about the forces, such as the Gang of Four, who were plotting to prevent the Nixon Trip, as well as why, at the time, Mao was amendable to restoring ties with America despite the ongoing Cultural Revolution." -- Publisher's description.

Subject

• Nixon, Richard M. 1913-1994 > Travel > China
• Visits of state > China
• United States > Foreign relations > China
• United States > Foreign relations > China
• China > Foreign relations > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

A Nixon returns to China in 1998 -- Nixon has second thoughts on Chiang Kai-Shek -- Convulsion in China -- Nixon returns to the world arena - Mao: A lion in winter -- The handshake of history -- "Only a republican president".

ISBN

• 9780761847380 (paperback : alk. paper)
• 0761847383 (paperback : alk. paper)
• 9780761847397 (eISBN)
• 0761847391 (eISBN)

LCCN

^^2009931299

OCLC

• 435421560
• SCSB-11322292

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library