尘埃中的图案：中美关系与承认争议，1949-1950

 尘埃中的图案：中美关系与承认争议，1949-1950

Patterns in the Dust：Chinese-American Relations and the Recognition Controversy, 1949-1950

南希伯恩科普夫塔克

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尽管美国在反共内战期间支持该政权，但蒋介石的中国国民党政府于 1949 年垮台。美国决策者随后被迫在拯救国民党或与中国共产党政府达成协议之间做出选择。

陷入冷战外交算计的杜鲁门政府拒绝轻率决定。国务卿迪安·艾奇逊将国民党的垮台比作森林中倒下的大树——美国必须等待尘埃落定，才能看清未来。

尘埃中的图案是对被后来的事件淹没的时期的全新审视。南希·伯恩科普夫·塔克利用许多以前无法获得的资源，评估了在两国开始长达 30 年的隔阂的关键几个月里影响华盛顿决策者的因素。她研究了政府对与中国共产党达成和解的机会的评估、为确定美国公众舆论所做的谨慎努力，以及朝鲜战争的影响，朝鲜战争使合理的对话戛然而止。

尘埃中的图案突出了艾奇逊院长在美国对华政策中保留的灵活性。艾奇逊是一个非常务实的人，他决心与中国保持联系，只是因为事实证明，这是处理国际关系的现实方式。

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南希·伯恩科普夫·塔克 (Nancy Bernkopf Tucker) 是乔治城大学和埃德蒙·沃尔什外交学院的历史学教授，也是伍德罗·威尔逊国际学者中心的高级学者。她是一位美国外交史学家，专门研究美国与东亚关系，特别是与中国大陆、台湾和香港的关系，并撰写和编辑了几本书，包括海峡谈话：美国与台湾的关系和与中国的危机以及获奖-获奖不确定的友谊：台湾、香港和美国，1945-1992 年。

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PUB DATE: May 1983

ISBN: 9780231053624

396 pages

FORMAT: Hardcover

LIST PRICE: $130.00£100.00

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Patterns in the Dust

Chinese-American Relations and the Recognition Controversy, 1949-1950

Nancy Bernkopf Tucker

Columbia University Press

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Chiang Kai-shek's Chinese Nationalist government collapsed in 1949 despite United States support for the regime during the anti-Communist civil war. American policymakers were then forced to choose between rescuing the Nationalists or coming to terms with China's Communist government.

The Truman Administration, caught up in the calculations of cold war diplomacy, refused to make a rash decision. Secretary of State Dean Acheson likened the Nationalist collapse to a tree falling in the forest--the United States would have to wait for the dust settled before it could see ahead clearly.

Patterns in the Dust is a fresh look at a period overwhelmed by later events. Drawing on many previously unavailable sources, Nancy Bernkopf Tucker assesses the factors that influenced Washington policymakers during the critical few months in which the thirty-year estrangement between the two countries began. She examines the government's assessment of the chances for accommodation with the Chinese Communists, the careful efforts to ascertain American public opinion, and the effects of the Korean War which brought reasoned dialogue to an abrupt end.

Patterns in the Dust highlights the flexibility that Dean Acheson retained in American policy toward China. Acheson emerges as a highly pragmatic man determined to preserve contacts with China simply because, as events have proved, that was the realistic way to conduct international relations.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Nancy Bernkopf Tucker is professor of history at Georgetown University and the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and a senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. She is an American diplomatic historian specializing in American-East Asian relations, particularly relations with China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, and has written and edited several books, including Strait Talk: United States-Taiwan Relations and the Crisis with China and the award-winning Uncertain Friendships: Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the United States, 1945–1992.