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Book Review: The China Threat: Memories, Myths, and Realities in the 1950s , written by Nancy Bernkopf Tucker

Book Review: The China Threat: Memories, Myths, and Realities in the 1950s , written by Nancy... New York, Columbia University Press, 2012. 312 pp. $39.50. Though he was a popular American president, Dwight Eisenhower met with little in the way of scholarly approbation for decades. Not until the release of relevant archival records in the late 1970s and 1980s was there a major scholarly rethink of his presidency. None have captured this scholarly about-face better than Waldo Heinrichs in his essay, Eisenhower and Sino-American Confrontation (1990): the picture of a “passive, bumbling president is gone – historians now see him as forceful, intelligent, shrewd, subtle, cautious, flexible and realistic.” Such positive appraisals have continued into the 21 st century, so that Eisenhower is still regarded as a successful Cold War-era president. Historians commend the former general for avoiding war with the Soviet Union during a time of great flux and uncertainty. Although historians also tend to give Eisenhower high marks for ending the Korean War and for bringing relative peace to the Far East, his Far Eastern policy – including that toward the People’s Republic of China – has long been overshadowed by an overwhelming scholarly focus on U.S.-Soviet relations. In her last book before passing away, Nancy Tucker’s The China Threat addresses this http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of American-East Asian Relations Brill

Book Review: The China Threat: Memories, Myths, and Realities in the 1950s , written by Nancy Bernkopf Tucker

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Journal of American-East Asian Relations , Volume 21 (3): 305 – Sep 11, 2014
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© 2014 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Book Reviews
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1058-3947
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1876-5610
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10.1163/18765610-02102008
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New York, Columbia University Press, 2012. 312 pp. $39.50. Though he was a popular American president, Dwight Eisenhower met with little in the way of scholarly approbation for decades. Not until the release of relevant archival records in the late 1970s and 1980s was there a major scholarly rethink of his presidency. None have captured this scholarly about-face better than Waldo Heinrichs in his essay, Eisenhower and Sino-American Confrontation (1990): the picture of a “passive, bumbling president is gone – historians now see him as forceful, intelligent, shrewd, subtle, cautious, flexible and realistic.” Such positive appraisals have continued into the 21 st century, so that Eisenhower is still regarded as a successful Cold War-era president. Historians commend the former general for avoiding war with the Soviet Union during a time of great flux and uncertainty. Although historians also tend to give Eisenhower high marks for ending the Korean War and for bringing relative peace to the Far East, his Far Eastern policy – including that toward the People’s Republic of China – has long been overshadowed by an overwhelming scholarly focus on U.S.-Soviet relations. In her last book before passing away, Nancy Tucker’s The China Threat addresses this

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