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This is the first-of-its-kind analysis, in any language, of the trilateral relationship between Israel, the People's Republic of China, and the Republic of China. It is also the first comprehensive analysis of the relations between the founders and early statesmen of the ROC and the founders of modern Israel before the proclamation of the Jewish state in 1948. It includes eyewitness testimony from five of the key players involved in the trilateral relationship; historical analysis from Chinese, Israeli, Arab, and East Indian perspectives; and a multilingual bibliography.
The collection describes Israeli-ROC and Israeli-PRC relations that vacillated over the decades. By 1998, they stabilized into full diplomatic relations between Israel and the PRC and officially unofficial trade and cultural ties between Israel and the ROC-an accommodation that has also been adopted in Sino-American relations.
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Preface by Jonathan Goldstein
The Republic of China and Israel by Jonathan Goldstein
Statement on China's Abstention on the United Nations Vote to Partition Palestine, November 22, 1947 by V. K. Wellington Koo
"I Was There": The Viewpoint of an Honorary Israeli Consul in Shanghai, 1949-1951 by Isador A. Magid
The People's Republic of China and the Arab Middle East: Arab Perspectives by Lillian Craig Harris
The Hegemonic Motif: The People's Republic of China and the Middle East, 1949-1998 by Anthony Alexander Loh
The Israeli Communist Party's Policy toward the People's Republic of China, 1949-1998 by Aron Shai
The Hong Kong Connection in Sino-Israeli Relations by Reuven Merhav and Yitzhak Shichor
The Crucial Year 1991 by E. Zev Sufott
The Establishment of People's Republic of China-Israeli Relations: Broader Implications for Southeast and South Asia by Moshe Yegar
South Asia and People's Republic of China-Israeli Diplomatic Relations by P.R. Kumaraswamy
The Chinese Factor in the Middle East Security Equation: An Israeli Perspective by Yitzhak Shichor
Conclusion: From "Peoplehood" to "Nationhood": An Uphill Battle for Chinese and Jews by Jonathan Goldstein
A Selected Bibliography on Sino-Israeli Relations by Jonathan Goldstein and Frank Joseph Shulman
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About the author
JONATHAN GOLDSTEIN is Professor of East Asian History at the State University of West Georgia and Research Associate of Harvard University's John K. Fairbank Center for East Asian Research. He is the author of
Philadelphia and the China Trade 1682-1846 and editor of
America Views China: American Images of China Then and Now (1992) and
The Jews of China (1999).
