Apr 25 2007
United States Diplomacy in China
By Te-Kong Tong 唐德刚 [Tang De Gang], University of Washington Press, 1964. This book covers the period 1844-60. I don’t know if this was his thesis at Columbia. Once he did mention John Fairbank’s autocracy, ” … he told me if I were to change some of my views …he’ll publish it at Harvard …”