Historical Dictionary of United States-china Relations

From Dean Acheson, the US State Department official who argued for withdrawing support of the Guomindang of Chiang Kai-shek, to Zhu Rongji, the Chinese leader who worked closely with US officials during the late 1990's Asian economic crisis, Sutter (School of Foreign Service, Georgetown U.) presents cross-referenced alphabetical entries that explain the importance of certain persons, events, organizations, and concepts to Sino-American relations over the course of the past two centuries. As with other volumes in the series, he also includes an introductory overview essay, a chronology, and a bibliography. There are also lists of US Presidents and Secretaries of State from 1789 to the present and Chinese Presidents and Prime Ministers from 1912 to the present. Annotation c2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Robert G. Sutter has been a visiting professor in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University since 2001. Before that he was a senior US government specialist dealing with Asia and the Pacific.