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978-0-8108-8889-0 • Hardback • December 2014 • $98.00 • (£75.00)
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Bruce A. Elleman is William V. Pratt Professor of International History in the Maritime History Department, Center for Naval Warfare Studies, U.S. Naval War College. He is the author of twenty books and government reports, including "Diplomacy and Deception: The Secret History of Sino-Soviet Diplomatic Relations, 1917–1927 (1997); Modern Chinese Warfare, 1795–1989 (2001, translatedintoChinese); Wilson and China: A Revised History of the Shandong Question (2002); Japanese–American Civilian Prisoner Exchanges and Detention Camps, 1941–45 (2006); and Moscow and the Emergence of Communist Power in China, 1925–30: The Nanchang Uprising and the Birth of the Red Army (2009).
List of Maps, Figures, and Photographs
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Taiwan Strait
Chapter 1: The Historical Origins of the “Two China” Problem
Chapter 2: The Two Chinas, the Offshore Islands, and the Korean War
Chapter 3: The U.S. Seventh Fleet and the Taiwan Patrol Force
Chapter 4: Debates on the U.S. China Policy
Chapter 5: The First Taiwan Strait Crisis, 1954-55
Chapter 6: American Military and Financial Support for the Nationalists
Chapter 7: The Second Taiwan Strait Crisis, 1958
Chapter 8: The Third Taiwan Strait Crisis and Sino-American Rapprochement
Chapter 9: PRC Economic Development, Tiananmen, and the
Fourth Taiwan Strait Crisis, 1995-96
Chapter 10: Beijing-Taipei Cross-Strait Tensions and Cooperation
Conclusion: The Taiwan Strait Challenge
Appendix A: Further Reading
Appendix B: Timeline of Major Events in the Taiwan Strait
Appendix C: U.S.-ROC Mutual Defense Treaty, 2 December 1954 (ratified 1955)
Appendix D: Formosa Resolution, 1955
Appendix E: Shanghai Communiqué, 28 February 1972
Appendix F: Joint Communiqué on the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations between the
People's Republic of China and the United States of America, 16 December 1978
Appendix G: Taiwan Relations Act, 10 April 1979
Appendix H: Joint Communiqué on the Question of Arms Sales to Taiwan, 17 August 1982
Appendix I: Anti-Secession Law adopted by NPC, 14 March 2005
Appendix J: Cross-Straits Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement, 29 June 2010
List of Acronyms
Bibliography
About the Author
This book provides an account of the strategies and tactics as well as the organization and conduct of the U.S. Navy’s Taiwan Patrol Force (TPF) in four confrontations between China and Taiwan in the Taiwan Strait. . . .The book recovers several valuable memos and maps from archival obscurity and recounts numerous anecdotes of the tension and tedium of naval operations in the strait.
— International Journal of Maritime History