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A fresh, multilayered approach to the history of US-China relations, China and the United States tells a new story of the relationship since the middle of the twentieth century: one shaped by the tensions between—and changes within—capitalism and socialism in both nations. For the first time, recent insights from several bodies of literature—the US in the world, PRC history, history of capitalism, and history of Chinese America—are brought into a single historical overview of the past seventy years of bilateral ties. From policymakers to immigrants, businesspeople to workers, and students to activists, China and the United States explores how people in both countries shaped what has become the most important—and contested—bilateral relationship in the twenty-first century. The book emphasizes the domestic social and political contexts of both countries as well as the wider international environment in which bilateral ties operated. I have written a book chapter based on this research in the Routledge History of US Foreign Relations, available here. I have also contributed a small piece from this research to Voices and Visions, a collaborative, open, online textbook written by historians of the US in the world. My article explored a photograph capturing the meeting between Mao and the Du Boises in Wuhan in 1959 and is available here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bff4a908ab722548f69e230/1709055035959-AKW02IO3GYNGEKILNCK0/9780674251830.png.jpeg Research - Made in China For centuries, the vastness of the Chinese market tempted foreign companies in search of customers. But in the 1970s, when the United States and China ended two decades of Cold War isolation, China’s trade relations veered in a very different direction. Elizabeth Ingleson shows how the interests of US business and the Chinese state aligned to reframe the China market: the old dream of plentiful customers gave way to a new vision of low-cost workers by the hundreds of millions. In the process, the world’s largest communist state became an indispensable component of global capitalism. Drawing on Chinese- and English-language sources, including previously unexplored corporate papers, Ingleson traces this transformation to the actions of Chinese policymakers, US diplomats, maverick entrepreneurs, Chinese American traders, and executives from major US corporations including Boeing, Westinghouse, J. C. Penney, and Chase Manhattan Bank. Long before Walmart and Apple came to China, businesspeople such as Veronica Yhap, Han Fanyu, Susanne Reynolds, and David Rockefeller instigated a trade revolution with lasting consequences. And while China’s economic reorganization was essential to these connections, Ingleson also highlights an underappreciated but crucial element of the convergence: the US corporate push for deindustrialization and its embrace by politicians. Reexamining two of the most significant transformations of the 1970s—US–China rapprochement and deindustrialization in the United States—Made in China takes bilateral trade back to its faltering, uncertain beginnings, identifying the tectonic shifts in diplomacy, labor, business, and politics in both countries that laid the foundations of today’s globalized economy. Available from Harvard University Press here. Alternatively available here, or here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bff4a908ab722548f69e230/877c91e0-f46a-4bee-8434-4754a3cb8f94/Screenshot+2024-04-09+at+23.17.35.png Research - Make it stand out U.S. businessman Charles Abrams (second from right) and Don King (second from left) promote sporting goods from China in 1978. 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Drawing on Chinese- and English-language sources, including previously unexplored corporate papers, Ingleson traces this transformation to the actions of Chinese policymakers, US diplomats, maverick entrepreneurs, Chinese American traders, and executives from major US corporations including Boeing, Westinghouse, J. C. Penney, and Chase Manhattan Bank. Long before Walmart and Apple came to China, businesspeople such as Veronica Yhap, Han Fanyu, Susanne Reynolds, and David Rockefeller instigated a trade revolution with lasting consequences. And while China’s economic reorganization was essential to these connections, Ingleson also highlights an underappreciated but crucial element of the convergence: the US corporate push for deindustrialization and its embrace by politicians. Reexamining two of the most significant transformations of the 1970s—US–China rapprochement and deindustrialization in the United States—Made in China takes bilateral trade back to its faltering, uncertain beginnings, identifying the tectonic shifts in diplomacy, labor, business, and politics in both countries that laid the foundations of today’s globalized economy. Available from Harvard University Press here. Alternatively available here, or here.