Nixon and Mao the week that changed the world Margaret MacMillan
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TextPublication details: New York Random House 2007Edition: 1st editionDescription: XXII, 404, [1] p., [16] p. of plates ill., mapISBN: 9781400061273; 140006127XSubject(s): Nixon, Richard Milhous 1913-1994 | Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976 | Никсон, Ричард 1913-1994 | Мао Цзедун 1893-1976 | Visits of state -- China | United States -- Foreign relations -- China | China -- Foreign relations -- United States | United States -- Foreign relations -- 1969-1974 | China -- Foreign relations -- 1949-1976 | Китай | США | международные отношения | 20 век 2 половинаDDC classification: 327.7305109/047 LOC classification: E183.8.C5 | M313 2007Other classification: Ф4(5КИТ)4 | Ф4(7СОЕ)4 Online resources: Publisher description | Contributor biographical information | Sample text Summary: "This book looks at one of the transformative moments of the twentieth century: In February 1972, Richard Nixon, the first American president ever to visit China, and Mao Tse-tung, the enigmatic Communist dictator, met for an hour in Beijing. Their meeting changed the course of history and ultimately laid the groundwork for today's complex relationship between the countries. That monumental meeting--during what Nixon called "the week that changed the world"--could have been brought about only by powerful leaders: Nixon, a great strategist and a flawed human being, and Mao, willful and ruthless; assisted by two brilliant and complex statesmen, Henry Kissinger and Chou En-lai. And behind them lay the complex history of two great and equally confident civilizations: China, ancient and contemptuous yet fearful of barbarians beyond the Middle Kingdom, and the United States, forward-looking and confident, seeing itself as the beacon for the world.--From publisher description."--From source other than the Library of Congress
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Bibliogr.: p. [375]-386
Index: p. [387]-404
"This book looks at one of the transformative moments of the twentieth century: In February 1972, Richard Nixon, the first American president ever to visit China, and Mao Tse-tung, the enigmatic Communist dictator, met for an hour in Beijing. Their meeting changed the course of history and ultimately laid the groundwork for today's complex relationship between the countries. That monumental meeting--during what Nixon called "the week that changed the world"--could have been brought about only by powerful leaders: Nixon, a great strategist and a flawed human being, and Mao, willful and ruthless; assisted by two brilliant and complex statesmen, Henry Kissinger and Chou En-lai. And behind them lay the complex history of two great and equally confident civilizations: China, ancient and contemptuous yet fearful of barbarians beyond the Middle Kingdom, and the United States, forward-looking and confident, seeing itself as the beacon for the world.--From publisher description."--From source other than the Library of Congress
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