Supplementary Texts for Interesting Times
The following twelve documents are provided as supplemental material for Interesting Times: China, America, and the Shifting Balance of Prestige, by Chas W. Freeman, Jr., published by Just World Books in January 2013. All texts except the communiqués and Taiwan Relations Act are authored by Chas W. Freeman, Jr., and published here under a Creative Commons license.
These works are offered to readers as a public service, and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License
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The Strategic Significance of Taiwan to the United States: An Historical Appreciation | April 1969 |
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Shanghai Communiqué of 28 February 1972 | February 1972 |
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3 |
Normalization Communiqué of 1 January 1979 | January 1979 |
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Taiwan Relations Act | April 1979 |
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Forecasting Change in China: Where China Seemed to Be Going in 1980 | February 1980 |
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Arms Sales Communiqué of 17 August 1982 | August 1982 |
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The People’s Liberation Army and Taiwan | December 1998 |
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8 |
How China Transformed Itself |
1997-2001 |
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9 |
Sino-American Relations in Trans-Atlantic Perspective | November 2003 |
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10 |
China: Three Challenges and One Surprise | October 2006 |
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11 |
Eight Theses on Sino-American Relations | December 2008 |
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12 |
On Learning Chinese and Other Foreign Languages | May 2009 |