Book contents
- Uneasy Allies
- Uneasy Allies
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Maps
- 1 Introduction
- Part I An Informal Alliance
- Part II Entanglements of American Empire
- Part III American Power and the New World Order
- 7 American Peace Movements and the Legacies of Transpacific Wartime Activism
- 8 The China Institute in America and the Politics of China’s Cultural Diplomacy
- 9 Sino-American Wartime Material Exchange and the Economic Foundations of the Cold War Order
- Part IV The New Imperialism
- Bibliography
- Index
8 - The China Institute in America and the Politics of China’s Cultural Diplomacy
from Part III - American Power and the New World Order
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 December 2024
- Uneasy Allies
- Uneasy Allies
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Maps
- 1 Introduction
- Part I An Informal Alliance
- Part II Entanglements of American Empire
- Part III American Power and the New World Order
- 7 American Peace Movements and the Legacies of Transpacific Wartime Activism
- 8 The China Institute in America and the Politics of China’s Cultural Diplomacy
- 9 Sino-American Wartime Material Exchange and the Economic Foundations of the Cold War Order
- Part IV The New Imperialism
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
During the war, American industries depended on a steady stream of Chinese hog bristles, tungsten and tin ore, alongside a whole host of other raw materials. This chapter focuses on how demand for these products prompted the US government to forge new connections to Chinese businessmen and government agencies. These connections served as the foundation for lucrative postwar trans-Pacific business networks between American and Chinese that enriched Chinese and American businessmen alike and continued throughout the 1940s. The Chinese case served as the blueprint for an idealized postwar economic order that, envisioned by Wilsonian liberals in the US government, was anchored by free trade, private business, and the circulation of American dollars.
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- Uneasy AlliesSino-American Relations at the Grassroots, 1937–1949, pp. 136 - 152Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024