Uneasy Allies

Zach Fredman is a historian of the United States and modern China. He is author of The Tormented Alliance (2022) and winner of the Edward M. Coffman First Book Manuscript Prize. Judd C. Kinzley is a historian of modern Chinese history at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of Natural Resources and the New Frontier.

1. Introduction: toward a Grassroots History of Sino-US relations Zach Fredman and Judd Kinzley; Part I. An Informal Alliance: 2. Herbert Yardley and the Grassroots origins of Sino-American wartime intelligence cooperation Chang Jui-te; 3. Allied Military competition in South China and the rise of American power Kwong Chi Man; 4. Gong Peng and Sino-American public diplomacy in wartime Chongqing Jack Neubauer; Part II. Entanglements of American Empire: 5. Pan American airlines and the birth of Chinese air power Mary Augusta Brazelton; 6. The three Gorges Dam and Sino-American hydraulic planning Covell Meyskens; Part III. American Power and the New World Order: 7. American peace movements and the legacies of transpacific wartime activism Ke Ren; 8. The China institute in America and the Politics of China's cultural diplomacy Zheng Yanqiu; 9. Sino-American wartime material exchange and the economic foundations of the cold war order Judd Kinzley; Part IV. The New Imperialism: 10. Haydon Boatner and Sino-American military cooperation David Cheng Chang; 11. Dealing with the dead in the China-Burma-India theater Linh Vu; 12. Qingdao and the politics of occupation in postwar China Zhiguo Yang; 13. The debate over 'Jeep Girls' in postwar China Chunmei Du; 14. Smuggling, military jurisdiction and the remaking of US Empire in postwar China Zach Fredman; 15. Conclusion: legacies and lessons of wartime Sino-American relations, 1937–1939 Zach Fredman.