Chinese Foreign Policy: Five Authors in Search of an Interpretation

摘要

The growing interest in the foreign policy and national security strategies of the People's Republic of China (PRC) has been matched by a significant increase in the published literature on these topics. These writings, however, have been subject to only intermittent critical scrutiny, and usually as reviews of individual studies, rather than from the perspective of the overall field of Chinese foreign policy studies. In the hopes of bridging this gap, David Albright of Problems of Communism asked the author to assess a representative sample of recent works on Chinese foreign policy. In order of review, the books considered were: Michael B. Yahuda, China's Role in World Affairs, New York, St. Martin's Press 1978; Robert G. Sutter, Chinese Foreign Policy after the Cultural Revolution, 1966-1977, Boulder, Colorado, Westview Press, 1978; King C. Chen, Ed., China and the Three Worlds--A Foreign Policy Reader, White Plains, New York, M. E. Sharpe, Inc., 1979; Wang Gungwu, China and the World Since 1949, New York, St. Martin's Press, 1977; and Samuel S. Kim, China, The United Nations, and World Order, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1979.