The great powers in East Asia, 1953-1960 / edited by Warren I. Cohen and Akira Iriye.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Warren I. Cohen -- The revolutionary challenge to early U.S. cold war policy in Asia / Michael H. Hunt and Steven I. Levine -- A house divided : the United States, the Department of State, and China / Nancy Bernkopf Tucker -- The best defense is a good offense : evolution of American strategy in East Asia / Marc S. Gallicchio -- Eisenhower and Sino-American confrontation / Waldo Heinrichs -- Eisenhower's foreign economic policy with respect to Asia / Burton Kaufman -- The Eisenhower Administration and changes in Western embargo policy against China / Qing Simei -- Search for a modus vivendi : Anglo-American relations and China policy / Rosemary Foot -- Japan and the Soviet role in East Asia / Hiroshi Kimura and Konstantin Sarkisov -- From San Francisco to Suez and beyond : Anglo-Japanese relations / Roger Buckley.

Alliance in crisis : the Lucky Dragon incident and Japanese-American relations / Roger Dingman -- U.S. China policy in the Eisenhower era : a Soviet view / Peter Ivanov -- The evolution of the People's Republic of China's policy towards the offshore islands / He Di -- British policy in Southeast Asia : the Eisenhower era / Anthony Short -- The American search for stability in Southeast Asia : the SEATO structure of containment / Gary Hess -- Breakthrough to the East : Soviet Asian policy in the 1950s / Steven I. Levine.