China confidential : American diplomats and Sino-American relations, 1945-1996 / compiled and edited with introductions and conclusion by Nancy Bernkopf Tucker.

"Published in cooperation with the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Program, and the ADST-DACOR Diplomats and Diplomacy Series."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 503-538) and index.

War Ends, War Begins -- Immediate Postwar Period -- Marshall Mission -- Civil War -- China Lobby -- Ward Incident -- Chinese Communist Victory--Beijing and Nanjing -- Chinese Communist Victory--Shanghai -- Bombing by Nationalists -- China White Paper -- Attack on the Foreign Service -- Sino-Soviet Relations -- Departure -- Developments in Taiwan -- On the Eve of the Korean War -- 1950s -- Korea -- U.S.-China Policy I -- Negotiation with the PRC -- Hong Kong -- Developments in Taiwan I -- Offshore Islands -- Developments in Taiwan II -- Taiwan Riot -- Sino-Soviet Split -- U.S.-China Policy II -- Tibet -- 1960s -- U.S. Policy -- Negotiation with the PRC I -- Sino-Soviet Split -- Taiwan I -- 1962 Taiwan Strait Crisis -- Sino-Indian Border War -- United Nations -- Hong Kong I -- Vietnam War I -- Kennedy Assassination -- Hilsman Speech 1963 -- Hong Kong II -- Negotiation With the PRC II -- Vietnam War II -- Taiwan II -- Chinese Activities in Indonesia and the Third World -- Cultural Revolution -- Normalization -- Preliminary Indicators -- Nixon, Kissinger, and Normalization -- Taiwan -- Negotiation with the PRC -- United Nations -- Nixon Trip to China -- 1970s -- Liaison Offices -- Stalemate -- Taiwan -- Carter -- Deng Xiaoping Visit -- Taiwan Relations Act -- Relations with the PRC -- Vietnam -- Hong Kong -- 1980s -- Election Campaign -- Taiwan Arms Sales Issue -- China in the 1980s -- Reagan Visit to China -- Hong Kong -- China in the Later 1980s -- Human Rights and Political Reform -- Tibet.