About Face: America's Relationship With China

Unabridged
Author: James Mann
Narrator: James Mann
Genres: History, Politics, United States, Asia, United States, International, Lectures, World Affairs
Publisher: Chautauqua Institution/ The Great Lecture Library
Date: November 2008
Length: 1 hour, 15 minutes
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Formats:
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Overview

James Mann, senior writer-in-residence in the CSIS International Security Program, is the author of two books: Beijing Jeep and About Face: A History of America's Curious Relationship With China From Nixon to Clinton.
Before joining CSIS, he was a diplomatic correspondent and the foreign affairs columnist for the Los Angeles Times. He joined the Times as its Supreme Court correspondent in 1978 and served from 1984 to 1987 as chief of its Beijing bureau. The title of his lecture is About Face: American's Relationship with China.